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WEDNESDAY  FEBRUARY  22  1995 


College  heads  quit  Oxford  and  Cambridge  club 


Lord  Jenkins:  the  most 
senior  officer  to  sign 


By  Ben  Preston 
education  correspondent 

THE  heads  of  Oxford  and  Cam¬ 
bridge  colleges  announced  yester¬ 
day  their  mass  resignation  from  the 
U>ndon  dub  that  bears  their  name 
in  protest  at  what  they  said  was  its 
offensive  treatment  of  women. 

All  but  one  of  the  31  Cambridge 
and  three  of  the  42  Oxford  college 
principals  signed  a  statement  pub¬ 
licly  dissociating  themselves  from 
the  United  Oxford  and  Cambridge 
University  Club,  which  was  found¬ 
ed  in  1817.  over  its  refusal  to  move 
towards  granting  full  membership 
to  women.  All  the  signatories  who 
were  members,  honorary  members 


or  lady  associate  members  either 
had  already  resigned  or  would  now 
to  do  so.  they  said. 

The  protest  by  many  of  Britain’s 
most  eminent  academics  and  public 
figures  was  led  by  Lord  Jenkins  of 
Hillhead.  Chancellor  of  Oxford  and 
former  Social  Democrat  leader.  Dr 
Peter  North,  Vice-Chancellor  of 
Oxford,  and  Professor  Sir  David 
Williams.  Vice-Chancellor  of  Cam¬ 
bridge.  Other  signatories  indicating 
their  “distaste  for  the  chib's  dis¬ 
criminatory  policies”  include  Sir 
Crispin  Ticket  I,  the  former  diplomat 
and  Warden  of  Green  College.  Ox¬ 
ford.  and  Lord  Dahrendorf.  the 
social  scientist  and  Warden  of  St 
Antony’s,  Oxford.  The  protest  re¬ 


flects  a  final  loss  of  patience  with  the 
resistance  to  change  shown  by  the 
old  guard  of  London's  clubland  over 
the  past  two  years.  Women  are 
forbidden  full  membership  and  use 
of  the  library  and  members’  bar. 
David  Butler,  the  political  scientist, 
reignited  the  row  between  senior 
acadonics  and  the  Pali  Mall  club 
last  month  by  announcing  his 
resignation  in  The  Times. 

Those  who  did  not  take  up  the 
opportunity  to  sign  the  statement 
include:  Lord  St  John  of  Fawsley. 
Master  of  Emmanuel  College.  Cam¬ 
bridge;  Lord  WmdJesham.  Principal 
of  Brasenose  College,  Oxford;  Pro¬ 
fessor  John  Barron,  Master  of  St 
Peter's  College,  Oxford;  and  Cather¬ 


ine  Hughes.  Principal  of  Somerville 
College,  Oxford.  The  Duke  of  Edin¬ 
burgh,  Chancellor  of  Cambridge, 
was  kept  informed  but  was  not 
asked  to  sign. 

Dr  North  said  the  universities 
could  not  ignore  the  affairs  of  a  dub 
that  displayed  their  coats  of  arms 
and  drew  virtually  all  members 
from  their  graduates.  He  said  the 
universities  were  likely  to  press  the 
dub  to  change  its  name:  “It  may 
seem  inappropriate  for  a  dub  to 
bear  the  names  of  two  universities 
which  have  publicly  dissociated 
themselves  from  it" 

Professor  Barron  said  that  al¬ 
though  he  supported  fuD  member¬ 
ship  rights  for  women,  he  believed  it 


was  better  to  fight  from  within  the 
dub.  He  said:  “1  can  see  why  some 
people  feel  they  have  come  to  the 
end  of  the  road,  but  I  feel  there  is  a 
little  further  to  travel  yet.” 

Lord  St  John  of  Fawsley  said  that 
he  had  not  signed  the  statement 
because  he  believed  it  was  more 
effective  to  seek  change  from  within. 
He  said:  “The  heads  of  colleges 
ought  to  move  to  take  away  the 
club's  coat  of  arms  and  its  name. 
That  is  the  weapon  to  use."  The 
peer,  a  member  of  White’s.  Pratt's 
and  the  Garrick,  added:  “1  have 
never  been  a  member  of  the  Oxford 
and  Cambridge.  It  is  not  the  son  of 
club  1  want  to  be  a  member  of.” 

Yesterday's  statement  expresses 


frustration  at  the  stalemate  since  49 
per  cent  of  the  dub's  membership 
voted  for  change  in  a  ballot  in 
September  1993.  just  short  of  the 
margin  required  for  reform  by  its 
constitution.  Jt  says:  “The  fact  that 
no  changes  have  been  achieved  has 
caused  great  disquiet  within  both 
universities  and  among  their  gradu¬ 
ates  here  and  overseas.  The  present 
situation  perpetuates  a  discrimina¬ 
tion  widely  regarded  in  both  univer¬ 
sities  as  offensive,  within  an 
institution  which  appears  to  many 
to  be  dosely  linked  with  the  two 
universities." 

List  of  dissenters,  page  2 
Diary,  page  18 


Declaration  of  war,  says  Paisley 

Major  urges 
Ulster  to 
seize  chance 


By  Philip  Webster,  political  editor,  and  Nicholas  Watt 


JOHN  MAJOR  yesterday  de¬ 
livered  a  passionate  plea  to  the 
people  of  Northern  Ireland 
£  against  allowing  the  chance  of 
w.  a  permanent  peace  in  the 
Province  to  slip  away. 

As  he  prepared  to  fly  to 
Belfast  for  todays  launch  of 
the  London-Dubiin  proposals, 
the  Prime  Minister 
emphasised  his  readiness  to 
consider  alternative  plans  put 
forward  by  the  Unionist  par¬ 
ties.  His  mind  was  open  about 
the  “right  mechanism”  for 
achieving  peace. 

He  told  the  Commons  his 
objective  was  to  ensure  that 
the  ceasefire  was  able  to  be 
“turned  into  a  permanent 
peace  for  the  well-being  of  all 
the  people  of  Northern 
Ireland". 

Mr  Major  added:  “What  I 
am  determined  is  that  we  do 
seek  to  move  forward,  to  try  to 
ensure  that  die  chance  that  is 
in  our  hands  —  we  may  not  be 
able  to  hold  it  —  should  not 
slip  away  because  we  are  not 
prepared  to  examine  the  mat¬ 
ter.  to  talk  about  the  matter,  to 
consider  it  and  reach  the 
conclusions  that  you  wish  to 
see  reached.“ 

Mr  Major's  appeal  came  as 
the  Ulster  Unionists  led  by 
James  Molyneaux  published 
their  own  plans  for  the  future 
of  the  province,  strongly  op¬ 
posing  the  expected  contents  of 
the  framework  document 
_  white  indicating  that  they 
"  would  not  boycott  the  talks 
process  if  their  proposals  were 
also  considered. 

But  the  Rev  Ian  Paisley’s 
Democratic  Unionists  reiter¬ 


ated  their  implacable  opposi¬ 
tion  to  participation  if  the 
framework  document  was  on 
the  table.  After  80  minutes  of 
talks  with  Mr  Major,  Dr 
Paisley  described  the  plans  as 
“a  declaration  of  war  on  the 
Union  and  on  the  Unionist 
people”.  He  said:“My  worst 
fears  are  realised ...  the  news 
for  the  people  of  Northern 
Ireland  is  of  the  worst  There’s 
only  one  line  and  one  proposi¬ 
tion  in  the  document.  That  is 
the  Dublin  line  and  the  Re¬ 
publican  agenda." 

Later  Mr  Major  and  John 
Bruton,  the  Irish  Prime  Minis¬ 
ter,  dined  at  Hillsborough 


Details,  analysis. 
Simon  Jenkins... 
Leading  article... 


....10 

....18 

— 19 


Bridge  and  chess 

The  bridge  and  chess  col¬ 
umns  have  moved  to  the 
'  second  section.  Read  Rob¬ 
ert  Sheehan  and  Raymond 
Keene  today  on  page  43. 


H«JEX. 


Births,  marriages,  deaths....  20 

Crossword - - —  ^ 

law  Report . . . 

Leading  articles . - . -J-J 

letters . . 

Obituaries. . . -2] 

Weather . . ~4 

TV  &  Radio . . . 4*. 47 


Castle.  This  morning  they  will 
launch  the  23-page  joint  docu¬ 
ment  laying  down  the  frame¬ 
work  for  a  constitutional 
settlement  Then  Mr  Major 
will  hold  a  press  conference 
launching  the  proposals  for 
die  internal  government  of 
Northern  Ireland,  which  in¬ 
clude  a  legislative  Assembly. 

Ministers  are  braced  for 
suspicion,  distrust  and  out¬ 
right  opposition,  particularly 
from  the  Protestant  commun¬ 
ity.  One  Cabinet  minister  said 
that  the  Government  was 
“walking  a  high  wire”.  The 
expectation  is  that  it  may  be 
two  to  three  months  before  the 
Government  can  say  whether 
the  parties  are  ready  for 
round-table  talks  about  the 
next  phase  of  the  process.  But 
there  is  cautious  optimism 
that  the  Ulster  Unionists  will 
became  involved. 

The  “triple  lock”  safeguards 
built  into  the  process,  the 
reported  readiness  of  the  Irish 
Government  not  to  press  its 
territorial  claim  and  the  fact 
that  there  has  already  been  six 
months  of  peace  are  felt  by 
ministers  to  give  the  present 
peace  effort  a  chance. 

The  Unionist  party  docu¬ 
ment  said  that  the  framework 


plans  could  lead  to  “another  10 
years  of  uncertainty  and  inev¬ 
itable  violence".  Thor  could 
become  “a  major  part  of  the 
problem  instead  of  a  basis  for 
solution”. 

Downing  Street  renewed  its 
insistence  that  the  framework 
document  was  not  a  blueprint 
for  a  political  solution,  and 
said  that  other  proposals 
could  still  be  taken  into  ac¬ 
count  "The  proposals  that  we 
will  publish  are  not  going  to 
be  carved  in  tablets  of  stone." 
an  official  said.  “They  are  to  be 
used  as  the  basis  for  discus¬ 
sion  and  negotiation.  We  do 
not  put  them  forward  to  the 
exclusion  of  all  other  ideas." 

After  ministers  had  briefed 
Tory  MPs.  Andrew  Hunter, 
chairman  of  the  Tory 
backbench  Northern  Ireland 
committee,  tried  to  dispri 
Unionist  fears,  saying:  “I  note, 
1  understand,  I  respect  their 
sensitivities.  1  believe  that 
when  the  dust  settles  they  will 
find  this  framework  document 
is  not  as  bad  as  they  think  it's 
going  to  be,  and  that  docu¬ 
ment  and  their  own  ideas  do 
form  the  basis  for  a  way- 
forward  to  discuss.” 

John  Hume,  the  SDLP  lead¬ 
er.  said:  “What  is  being  pro¬ 
duced  tomorrow  is  a 
discussion  document  A  dis¬ 
cussion  document  is  for 
discussion." 

Mr  Bruton  tried  to  allay 
Unionist  fears  that  the  docu¬ 
ment  amounts  to  a  nationalist 
agenda  when  he  told  his  MPs 
that  it  would  give  the  people  of 
Northern  Ireland  a  chance  to 
shape  their  own  future.  Nei¬ 
ther  tradition  need  fear  its 
contents.  It  will  undoubtedly 
challenge  the  two  traditions  on 
this  island.  But  it  will  do  so  in 
an  even-handed  way.” 

Mr  Bruton  said  that  the 
document  was  not  being  im¬ 
posed  as  a  blueprint  “Its 
purpose  is  to  facilitate,  not  pre¬ 
empt  dialogue.  At  the  end  of 
the  day.  the  people  of  this 
island,  north  and  south,  will 
have  the  final  say." 

Representatives  of  loyalisr 
paramilitaries  and  Sinn  Fein 
said  they  would  study  the 
document  before  responding. 


KENMAOPHStSOM 


Fit  Lt  Jo  Salter  pictured  at  Lossiemouth  yesterday  in  front  of  a  Tornado  bomber 


No  fear  of  flying  for  RAF’s 
first  woman  bomber  pilot 


By  Michael  Evans 

DEFENCE  CORRESPONDENT 

THE  RAFs  first  woman  Tor¬ 
nado  bomber  pilot  introduced 
herself  to  the  media  yesterday 
by  saying  that  she  never  feels 
fear. 

Flight  Lieutenant  Jo  Salter. 
26,  a  member  of  the  617 
“Dam busters”  Squadron  at 
Lossiemouth.  Scotland,  has 
cost  the  RAF  £3  million  to 
train  as  a  fast  jet  pilot  the  sa¬ 
me  as  her  male  counterparts. 

Yesterday,  Fit  Lt  Salter,  who 
comes  from  Bournemouth,  re¬ 
jected  suggestions  that 


frontline  Servicewomen 
lacked  aggression.  “I  never 
feel  fear."  she  said  “The  Air 
Force  is  an  armed  force  and 
you  have  to  expect  to  go  into 
combat" 

She  said  that  even  if  she 
married  and  had  children,  she 
would  not  give  up  her  career. 

"I  would  like  to  have  child¬ 
ren  one  day  and  in  the  Air 
Force  you  can  have  maternity 
leave,  but  I  would  hate  to  give 
up  my  career.”  she  said,  as  the 
RAF  formally  presented  its 
first  female  bomber  pflot 
i  FI  Lt  Salter  underwent  rig¬ 
orous  training  to  bring  her  up 


to  standard  and  has  a  perma¬ 
nent  commission  which  will 
last  to  the  age  of  38.  After  that, 
she  hopes  to  become  a  weap¬ 
ons  instructor. 

She  said  she  had  always 
loved  flying,  but  taking  con¬ 
trol  of  a  high-technology  war 
machine  was  not  even  a  flight 
of  fancy  as  a  schoolgirl 
because  the  opportunity  never 
existed.  It  was  only  in  1991  that 
Ministers  decided  to  allow 
women  to  become  combat 
pilots.  Now  28  are  undergoing 
training. 

Solo  pioneer,  page  7 


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By  Susan  Gilchrist 

UNILEVER,  the  Anglo-Dutch  soap 
giant  admitted  yesterday  that  ns 
Persil  Power  washing  powder  had 
rotted  more  than  just  a  few  shuts.  The 
product  also  made  a  £57  million  hole 
in  the  group’s  finances  last  summer, 
after  the  company  was  forced  to 
withdraw  and  reformulate  it 

Last  June  Unilever  had  to  destroy 
tons  of  the  original-formula  powder 
which  it  now  acknowledges  damaged 
clothes.  The  group  included  the  cost  of 
its  withdrawal  in  the  £23  billion  profit 
figures  for  1994  published  yesterday: 
the  firm  had  spent  more  than  £200 

million  developing  the  powder. 

Other  expenses  included  an  esnmat- 


ed  £500.000  on  advertising  its  tele¬ 
phone  “Care  Line”,  which  cost  several 
hundred  thousand  pounds  to  run.  The 
helpline  was  set  up  to  reassure 
customers  and  to  offer  compensation 
for  any  clothes  they  could  prove  had 
been  damaged  by  the  powder. 


It  was  all  meant  to  be  so  different 
Persil  Power  was  launched  last  spring 
throughout  Europe  on  a  wave  of  hype, 
with  Unilever  claiming  it  contained  a 
unique  manganese-based  accelerator 
which  was  more  effective  in  removing 
even  “stubborn”  stains. 

Within  weeks.  Procter  &  Gamble,  its 
arch  rival  and  manufacturer  of  Ariel, 
declared  that  Persil  Power  caused 
fabric  damage.  Unilever  denied  the 
claims  and  launched  writs  for  defama¬ 
tion.  But  P&G  responded  with  a 
campaign  of  unprecedented  ferocity 
against  the  product,  commissioning 
reports  from  consumer  associations 
and  placing  advertisements  in  nat¬ 
ional  newspapers.  At  times  the  “soap 
wars"  degenerated  into  farce,  with 


P&G  brandishing  frayed  and 
washed-out  boxer  shorts  at  press 
conferences. 

The  plan  proved  successful  By  the 
summer  Unilever,  in  an  attempt  to 
defend  its  85-year-old  brand  name, 
changed  the  formula  of  PersiJ  Power 
and  reduced  the  manganese  content 
by  80  per  cent 

It  now  admits  it  made  a  serious 
mistake  in  launching  a  product  with  a 
defect  it  had  not  detected,  lt  has  cost 
the  company,  and  its  shareholders, 
millions  and  damaged  its  image. 
Unilever's  share  of  the  European 
detergent  market  is  oo  better  than  a 
year  ago,  and  it  still  trails  P&G. 

Tempos,  page  28 


Manager  of 
Arsenal 
sacked  over 
cash  report 

By  Peter  Ball 

ARSENAL  yesterday  dis¬ 
missed  their  manager.  George 
Graham  two  days  before  a 
Premier  League  commission 
investigating  allegations  of  ir¬ 
regular  payments  reports. 

Graham  had  been  accused 
of  receiving  £285,000  from 
Rune  Hauge.  the  Norwegian 
agent  involved  in  the  transfer 
of  John  Jensen,  the  Danish 
international.  His  solicitors 
said  that  he  dismissed  the 
allegations  as  “nonsense"  and 
demanded  a  lull  FA  inquiry. 

Arsenal's  response,  ending 
Graham's  eight  years  as  man¬ 
ager.  was  almost  inevitable. 
The  statement  said:  "The 
board  have  concluded  that  Mr 
Graham  did  not  act  in  the  best 
interests  of  the  club.  The 
board  have  therefore  termi¬ 
nated  Mr  Graham’s  contract." 

Graham  has  been  the  most 
successful  Arsenal  manager 
since  the  war,  winning  two 
championships,  the  FA  Cup, 
the  League  Cup  and  the  Euro¬ 
pean  Cup  Winners’  Cup. 

□  Eric  Cantona,  the  Man¬ 
chester  United  footballer,  was 
charged  yesterday  by  police 
with  common  assault  on  a 
spectator  at  Crystal  Palace 
during  a  match  last  month. 


Graham  sacked,  page  48 


NatWest  lifts 
its  profits 
to  £1.59bn 

National  Westminster  Bank 
yesterday  announced  a  61  per 
cent  increase  in  1994  pre-tax 
profits,  to  £159  billion  after 
bad  debts  halved  to  £616 
million.  They  exceeded  City 
expectations,  as  did  the  rise  in 
annual  dividend,  up  17  per 
cent  to  21.6p. 

Derek  Wanless,  the  chief 
executive,  said  that  the  bank 
is  looking  for  acquisitions  to 
fill  in  perceived  weaknesses  in 
its  investment  banking  and 
Coutts  private  banking 
operations _ Pages  23, 27 

Skier  survived  on 
Mars  and  snow 

Andrew  Wilson,  44.  from  Glas¬ 
gow.  a  cross-country  skier 
feared  frozen  to  death  after 
three  nights  lost  in  a  blizzard 
in  the  Grampians,  amazed 
rescuers  when  he  walked  to 
safety.  He  survived  on  one 
Mars  bar  and  snow  and  shel¬ 
tered  in  his  bivouac  bag  in  a 
snow  bole  as  temperatures  fell 
to  minus  35C - Page  3 

Euro-tank  rolls  in 

Britain  wants  to  collaborate 
with  France  and  Germany  in 
designing  and  building  a  new 
generation  of  armoured  vehi¬ 
cles  for  Europe's  armies.  The 
first  link  could  centre  on  a 
£35bn  programme  for  7,000 
personnel  carriers  and  recon¬ 
naissance  vehicles —  Page  25 


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THE  TIMES 


WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY  22 1995 


Westminster  chortles  over  wizard  ways  to  curb  unruly  Cabinet 


At  education  Questions. 

the  air  was  black  with 

the  soot  of  flying  pots 
thrown  from  glass  houses  by 
people  so  blinded  by  the 
beams  In  their  own  eyes  that 
they  were  casting  out  kettles 
in  place  of  motes.  To  put  it 
another  way,  MPs  were  dis¬ 
cussing  the  need  for  physical 
fitness,  good  English  and 
discipline.  In  others. 

Mercifully,  a  thin  minister 
had  chosen  to  answer  the 
question  about  physical  exer¬ 
cise.  Mercilessly,  Labour 
managers  had  selected  a  fat 
spokesman  to  question  her. 


In  the  drcu instances.  Educa¬ 
tion  Secretaiy  Gillian  Shep¬ 
hard  (C,  thin)  was  kind  to 
Peter  Kilfoyle  (Lab,  fad  when 
he  complained  about  the  loss 
of  sports  fields. 

“One  hundred  yards 
sprint!”  chortled  Tory  tubbies 
at  the  protesting  Kilfoyle.  ”1 
was  once  a  PE  teacher,”  he 
spluttered. 

Cyril  Townsend  (C,  thin) 
complained  that  we  were  “a 
nation  contentedly  unfit". 
The  wheezes  and  rasps  of 
MPs  eager  to  dispute  this,  if 
they  could  only  find  breath, 
filled  the  Chamber.  Chester's 


(and  television's,  radio's, 
publishing's  and  after-din¬ 
ner’s)  Gyles  Brandreth,  re¬ 
minding  us  that  “English  is 
the  richest  and  most  versatile 
of  the  living  languages”  (and 
he  the  mast  versatile  and 
richest  of  its  living  practitio¬ 
ners)  urged  the  nation  to  be 
more  articulate. 

Were  it  so,  the  nation  might 
urge  Mr  Brandreth  to  be  less 
voluble.  “People,”  he  went  on, 
“are  judged  by  whether  they 
can  express  themselves  dear¬ 
ly."  Expressing  herself  very 
dearly  indeed,  Glenda  Jack- 
son  (Lab,  articulate)  told  To- 


MATTHEWP  ARBIS 

POLITICAL  SKETCH 


ries  to  stop  pontificating  and 
pay  for  better  teaching.  Eric 
Forth,  a  junior  education 
minister,  boasted  about  his 
department’s  anti-bullying 
pack  for  schools.  If  Mr  Forth, 
a  Scot  of  the  brutal  tendency 
and  more  easily  envisaged 
behind  die  bicyde  sheds  than 
the  dispatch  box.  does  not 
have  L-O-V-E  tattooed  on  one 
set  of  knuckles  and  H-A-T-E 


on  the  other,  it  must  be 
because  he  is  saving  the  space 
for  something  ruder. 

Still.  Forth  had  his  wits 
about  him.  He  had  cannily 
anticipated  that  a  question 
about  the  need  for  “firm 
discipline''  in  schools  would 
elicit  sniggers  from  Labour's 
David  Blunkett  about  Ma¬ 
jor's  disciplinary  problems 
with  a  class  of  only  21  his 


Cabinet  To  rueful  cheers 
from  Tory  backbenchers  who 
are  fed  up  with  their  own 
prefects'  squabbles.  Forth 
read  out  a  five-point  plan  for 
dealing  with  troublemakers: 
detention;  interruption  of 
lunch:  privileges  such  as  trips 
cancelled;  written  work  as¬ 
signed;  a  useful  task  to  be 
carried  out  He  hoped  that 
anyone  who  had  to  impose 
discipline  would  find  his  list 
“helpful". 

Got  that,  PM?  Who  knows: 
with  Kenneth  Clarke's 
lunches  curtailed,  Aitkert 
barred  from  trips  abroad. 


Heseltine  assigned 
work.  Redwood  consigned 

a  useful  task  (but  whafi)  and 

Portillo  in  detention.  Cabinet 
Government  might  become 
possible  again. 

All  in  all  it  was  a  good  day 
for  Mr  Forth.  Recommended 
to  adopt  US  educational 
methods  in  Britain,  he  re¬ 
plied:  “I  yield  to  none  in  my 
affection  for  all  things  Ameri¬ 
can.  not  least  Mrs  Forth. 

Next  came  PM’s  Ques¬ 
tions.  Ireland  is  bringing  out 
the  best  in  John  Major.  When 
the  likeable  Sir  James 
Kilfedder  (UPUP.  Down  N) 


sounded  mote  than  ntuaUf 
upset  to  have  been  (as  he  ; 
thought)  excluded  bran  cot 
suJtatfons,  Major  avotded 
any  temptation  to  bndfe  or 
snap  and  replied  generously. 
Challenged  on  the  frame¬ 
work  document  by  Ken 
Masinms  (UUP,  Fermanagh 
&  S  Tyrone),  the  PM  put 
down  his  notes  and,  bopmg 
to  convince  Maginnis, 
seemed  for  a  moment  to  rise  . 
right  above  the  habitual  ran¬ 
cour.  He  spoke  with  real 

^Sincerity  in  the  Commons  • 
is  so  rare  it’s  almost  shocking. 


‘Government  paying  lip  service  to  needs  of  middle-aged  women’ 

Pension  reform 
not  good  enough 
say  divorced  wives 


A  GOVERNMENT  proposal 
to  ensure  fairer  pension  rights 
for  divorced  women  has  been 
greeted  with  criticism  from 
peers,  ex-wives'  groups  and 
lawyers.  They  say  the  pro¬ 
posed  changes  do  not  go  far 
enough. 

Under  the  current  arrange¬ 
ments,  couples  who  divorce 
lose  the  automatic  right  to 
share  each  other’s  pensions, 
even  though  the  amounts  in¬ 
vested  in  pensions  may  exceed 
the  value  of  other  household 
assets,  including  the  family 
home. 

During  the  Lords  commit¬ 
tee  stage  of  the  Pensions  Bid 
on  Monday,  Lord  Mackay  of 
Ardbrecknish.  the  Social  Sec¬ 
urity  minister,  announced  that 
the  Government  was  looking 
at  ways  to  amend  the  Matri¬ 
monial  Causes  Act  He  said 
that  the  courts  would  have  to 
place  “greater  emphasis  on 
the  need  for  pension  rights 
when  considering  financial 
provision  on  divorce". 

But  the  move  was  seen  as  an 
attempt  to  divert  attention 
from  more  radical  solutions. 
Baroness  Young  had  put  for¬ 
ward  an  amendment  to  the 


By  Anne  Ashworth 

Bill  requiring  pensions  to  be 
divided  on  divorce.  Among 
those  dissatisfied  with  the 
Government’s  action  are  SaJ- 
lie  Quin,  the  spokeswoman  for 
Fair  shares,  a  group  that  cam¬ 
paigns  for  pensions  justice  for 
the  divorced 

She  said  yesterday:  “The 
Government  is  purely  paying 
lip  service  to  the  problem  of 
middle-aged  wives  who  are 
deprived  of  a  share  in  their 
husband's  pension  when  they 
divorce.  We  are  not  happy  and 
intend  to  keep  on  fighting  but  I 
am  pleased  to  see  that  the 
Government  has  finally 
deigned  to  recognise  the  prob¬ 
lem." 

Mrs  Quin.  50,  is  a  typical 
case  for  better  pensions  treat¬ 
ment  Her  husband  retired 
early  in  1991  after  their  judicial 
separation.  During  their  mar¬ 
riage.  she  had  been  employed 
in  a  series  of  part-time  jobs 
which  offered  no  pension.  As 
she  has  no  right  to  a  share  of 
her  husband's  pension,  she 
and  her  I7-year-ofd  daughter 
live  on  income  support. 

Her  organisation  is  part  of 
an  increasingly  vociferous  lob¬ 
by.  There  is  considerable  un¬ 


ease  over  middle-aged  women 
facing  an  impoverished  old 
age  after  a  late  divorce. 

The  plight  of  the  middle- 
aged  divorced  wife  will  be  kept 
in  the  spotlight  by  the  case  of 
Douglas  and  Anne  Brooks, 
which  goes  before  the  Lords  in 
early  April.  The  couple  split 
six  years  ago  after  12  years  of 
marriage. 

Although  the  Court  of  Ap¬ 
peal  ruled  lost  year  that  Mrs 
Brooks  was  entitled  to  a  share 
of  her  husband's  estimated 
£500,000  pension.  Mr  Brooks 
is  contesting  that  decision. 
Mrs  Brooks.  56.  feels  that  she 
earned  a  portion  of  the  pen¬ 
sion  for  running  the  home. 

The  occupational  pensions 
industry  and  the  insurance 
companies  are  little  moved  by 
the  debate.  However,  the  Nat¬ 
ional  Association  of  Pension 
Funds,  which  represents  com¬ 
pany  pension  schemes,  said 
that  if  pensions  were  to  be 
split,  administrative  costs  to 
the  pension  scheme  would 
have  to  be  met  by  the  couple 
rather  than  die  scheme. 

Libby  Purves,  page  16 
Leading  article,  page  19 


Anne  Brooks:  wants  share  of  £500.000  pension 


Rebels  ponder  reform  after  Lords  victory 


the  Tory  rebellion 


By  Aijce  Thomson 

POLITICAL  REPORTER 

PEERS  celebrated  the  news 
yesterday  that  their  rebellion 
had  forced  the  Government  to 
find  ways  to  ensure  that  men 
shared  their  pensions  with 
their  former  wives  when  they 
divorced. 

Tories  who  joined  opposi¬ 
tion  parties  in  the  Lords  on 
Monday  night  to  force  the 
Government  into  promising 
concessions  said  that  they 
would  be  going  through  the 
Pensions  Bill  carefully  to  look 
for  any  more  inequalities. 


Baroness  Young,  the  former 
Leader  of  the  Lords  who  led 
the  Tory  rebellion,  said:  “Di¬ 
vorce  courts  in  England  and 
Wales  are  not  obliged  to  take 
a  husband's  pension  rigbts 
into  account  when  making 
divorce  settlements.  This 
means  courts  can  short¬ 
change  women  who  have 
supported  their  husbands  and 
sacrificed  their  own  careers  to 
bring  up  children.  They  are 
left  reliant  on  benefits  when 
they  retire  while  the  man  has 
a  fat  pension.” 

PCers  do  not  want  the 
changes  to  be  retrospective 


because  such  an  arrangement 
caused  so  many  problems  for 
the  Child  Support  Agency,  but 
they  cannot  agree  on  how  the 
law  should  be  amended. 
Some  want  a  former  wife  to 
receive  financial  or  property 
benefits  in  lieu  of  the  pension, 
as  occurs  in  Scotland.  Others 
want  die  pension  split  at  the 
time  of  divorce,  a  move  that 
neither  the  Government  nor 
pensions  companies  want 
Lord  Bqyd-Carpenter,  a  for¬ 
mer  Conservative  pensions 
minister,  said:  “There  is  the 
feeling  in  the  Lords  that  we 
must  not  funk  the  issue.  The 


present  law  is  unfair  and 
however  difficult  h  is  to 
change  it  must  be  addressed.” 
He  added,  however,  that  pro¬ 
visions  should  not  be  pushed 
too  far.  “I  am  not  sure  that  a 
pension  not  yet  put  into 
payment  should  be  split 
because  it  would  just  be  so 
hard  to  do." 

Pressure  groups  for  di¬ 
vorced  women  said  the  courts 
must  have  the  power  to  split 
the  pension  immediately. 
Mike  Brown,  of  the  National 
Association  of  Pension  Funds, 
said:  "It  is  certainly  feasible  to 
split  a  pension.” 


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□  OXFORD:  Roy  Jenkins.  Chan¬ 
cellor.  Umwrsrty  of  Oxford  Peter 
North.  Vice-Chancellor,  Principal 
of  Jesus  College-.  John  Alberv. 
Master  of  University  college:  Eric 
Anderson,  Rea  or  of  Lincoln  Coll- 
A.B.  Atkinson.  Warden  of 
College;  Clark  Brundin. 
President  of  Templeton  College. 

John  Burgh.  President  of  Trin¬ 
ity  College;  Marilyn  Bader.  Rec¬ 
tor  of  Exeter  College;  Avail 
Cameron,  Warden  of  Keble  Coll¬ 
ege:  Bryan  Carried ge.  Principal  of 
Luiacre  College;  Ralf  Dahren- 
dori  Warden  of  St  Antony's 
College:  Ruth  Deecfa.  Principal  of 
St  Anne's  College:  John  Drury, 
Dean  of  Christ  Church;  Pad 
Fiddes,  Principal  of  Regent's  Park 
College;  John  Flemming,  Warden 
of  Wadham  College;  Justin  Gos¬ 
ling.  Principal  of  St  Edmund  Hall: 


William  Hayes.  President  of  Si 
John’s  College;  Colin  Lucas.  Mas¬ 
ter  of  Balliol  College:  Elizabeth 
UeweDyn-Smllh.  Principal  of  St 
Hilda's  College;  Harvey  McGreg¬ 
or.  Warden  or  New  College;  Geof¬ 
frey  Marshall.  Provost  of  The 
Queen's  College. 

Joseph  Mnxtitiz,  Master  of 
Campion  Hall;  Patrick  Nell 
Warden  of  All  Souls  College; 
Ernest  Nicholson.  Provost  of 
Oriel  College;  Raymond  Plant 
Master  or  St  Catherine's  College: 
Jessica  Ramon.  Warden  of  Mer¬ 
ton  College:  Richard  C  Repp. 
Master  of  St  Cross  College: 
George  Richardson  (Warden  of 
Keble  College  1969-94):  John  Rob¬ 
erts  (Warden  of  Merton  College 


(19844H):  Richard  G.  StnethursL 
Provost  of  Worcester  College;  An¬ 
thony  Snath.  President  of  Mag¬ 
dalen  College:  David  Smith, 
President  of  Wolfson  College:  Rob¬ 
ert  Stevens,  Master  of  Pembroke 
College;  Duncan  Stewart.  Prin¬ 
cipal  of  Lady  Margaret  Hall. 

Keith  Thomas,  President  of 
Corpus  Christi  College  Geoffrey 
Thomas,  President  of  Kellogg  Coll¬ 
ege:  Crispin  TickdL  Warden  of 
Green  College;  Dennis  Trevelyan. 
Principal  of  Mansfield  College; 
Ralph  Waller,  Principal  of 
Manchester  College:  Henry 
Waasfa rough.  Master  of  St  Benet's 
Hail;  Thomas  WehuuKfy,  Warden 
of  Greyfriars;  Derek  Wood,  Prin¬ 
cipal  of  St  Hugh^  College:  Chris¬ 


topher  Zeeman.  Principal  of  Hen- 
ford  College. 

□  CAMBRIDGE:  David  Wil¬ 
liams,  Vice-Chancellor,  University' 
of  Cambridge;  Sam  Edwards,  Pro* 
Vice-Chancellor.  Michael  Atiyah, 
Master  of  Trinity  College  Patrick 
Bateson.  Provost  or  King's  Coll¬ 
ege:  Gillian  Beer.  President  of 
Clare  Hall:  Alec  Broers,  Master  of 
Churchill  College;  Joliet  Camp¬ 
bell  Mistress  of  Ginon  College; 
Alan  Cuthbert  Master  of 
Fiizwilliam  College;  John  Dingle. 
President  of  Hughes  Hall. 

Terence  English,  Master  of  Si 
Catharine's  College;  Peter  God¬ 
dard.  Master  of  St  John’s  College; 
Peter  Gray.  Master  of  GonviUe 
and  Caius  College:  John  Gordon. 
Master  of  Magdalene  College: 
David  Harrison,  Master  of 
Selwyn  College;  Bob  Hepple. 


Master  of  Clare  College;  Gabriel 
Horn.  Master  of  Sidney  Sussex 
College:  Gordon  Johnson,  Presi¬ 
dent  of  Wolfson  College:  Hans 


s  College; 

Warden  of  Koo/nson  Cofiege; 
Geoffrey  Lloyd.  Master  of  Darwin 
College:  John  Lyons.  Master  of 
Trinity  Ha 11:  Peter  Mathias.  Mas¬ 
ter  of  Downing  College:  Onora 
O'Neill  Principal  of  Newnham 
College:  Valerie  Pea ri.  President 
of  New  Hall:  Pauline  Perry. 
President  of  Lucy  Cavendish  Coll¬ 
ege;  John  Pottunghorne.  Presi¬ 
dent  of  Queens'  College:  Kate 
Pretty.  Principal  of  Homenon 
College;  Cotiii  Renfrew.  Master  of 
Jesus  College:  John  Meurig 
Thomas.  Master  of  Peter  ho  use; 


-orpus ' 


Governors 
urged  by 
heads  to 
go  into 
the  red 

By  Ben  Preston 
EDUCATION  CORRESPONDENT 


HEAD  teachers  raised  the 
stakes  in  the  revolt  over  educa¬ 
tion  spending  yesterday  and 
urged  schools  to  go  into  the 
red  rather  than  axe  teachers' 
jobs. 

The  National  Association  of 
Head  Teachers  advised  gover¬ 
nors  to  unite  and  delay  any 
decisions  about  reducing  staff¬ 
ing  or  increasing  class  sizes  to 
make  their  budgets  balance  in 
the  new  financial  year.  In¬ 
stead.  schools  should  protect 
the  quality  of  education  and 
increase  the  pressure  on  min¬ 
isters  to  find  extra  cash. 

The  advice  could  led  to  local 
education  authorities  taking 
control  of  schools  where  gov¬ 
ernors  try  to  set  illegal  deficit 
budgets.  Alternatively,  the 
union  says  that  authorities 
mighi  respond  by  simply  re¬ 
minding  governors  that  any 
deficit  at  the  end  of  the  year 
would  be  deducted  from  the 
following  year's  budget 

The  strategy  is  designed  to 
catch  ihe  Government  off  bal¬ 
ance  by  delaying  confronta¬ 
tion  over  threatened  teacher 
redundancies  until  nearer  to 
the  next  general  election.  It 
rqects  more  dramatic,  imme¬ 
diate  alternatives  such  as  the 
introduction  of  a  four-day 
week  for  schools  or  mass 
resignations  by  governors. 

David  Hart,  the  union’s 
general  secretary,  -said  that 
ministers  would  be  more  vul¬ 
nerable  to  campaigns  by  par¬ 
ents  and  governors  early  next 
year  when  schools  which 
planned  to  go  into  the  red 
started  to  run  out  of  money. 

He  said  die  Government's 
spending  squeeze  and  its  re¬ 
fusal  to  fund  the  2.7  per  cent 
increase  in  teachers'  pay 
meant  the  requirement  that 
governors  set  a  balanced  bud¬ 
get  was  "totally  incompatible” 
with  their  statutory 
responsiblity  to  deliver  the 
national  curriculum.  He  ac¬ 
knowledged  that  the  courts 
might  be  required  to 
intervene. 

Mr  Han  said  it  was  time  for 
parens  and  teachers  to  chall¬ 
enge  the  assumption  that  gov¬ 
ernors  must  not  overspend 
when  faced  by  unrealistic 
spending  constraints  estab¬ 
lished  by  an  unlistening  Gov¬ 
ernment.  He  said  the  union's 
strategy  was  a  gamble. 

Walter  Ulrich,  officer  for  the 
National  Association  of  Gov¬ 
ernors  and  Managers,  said 
that  it  was  pointless  for  head 
teachers  to  ask  governors  to 
plan  deficit  budgets  that 
would  risk  intervention  by 
local  authorities.  He  said: 
This  would  only  make  things 
worse  because  authorities 
would  set  harsher  budgets  by 
formula  which  were  not  so 
well  tailored  to  individual 
schools.” 


480  to  sue  MoD  over 
Gulf  War  syndrome 

StfSrtSTiiS'Efi?. 

Defence  that  they  intend  to  sue  for  compensation.  In  a 
Commons  written  reply  yesterday- Nich°fasSifain«fte 
Armed  Forces  Minister,  said  that  the  MoDhadreo^^ 
“notification  of  483  potential  claims  in  respect  of  ill  health, 
as  a  result  of  service  in  the  Gulf  War".  . 

The  MoD  denies  the  existence  of  the  syndrome.  Qnr_ 
investigations  to  date  have  found  no  medical  or  scientific 
evidence  of  a  Gulf  War  syndrome,  or  any  medical 
condition  peculiar  to  service  in  the  Gulf,”  Mr  Soamessazd* 

Rubbish  removed 

BBC  Radio  3  admitted  last  night  that  it  had  cut  die.' 
heckling  from  Monday’s  broadcast  of  The  Rose  Lake.  bj&J 
Sir  Michael  Tippett,  because  it  did  not  want  to  spoil  tbe^T 
composer’s  birthday.  The  shouts  of  “Rubbish!” t  andi 
"Visions  of  Hell!"  were  removed  after  the  recording  at  the/- 
Barbican.  London,  on  Sunday  night  \ 

Derry  detention  charge 

A  Sinn  Fein  member  of  Deny  City  Council,  held  for  j 
questioning  in  an  arrest  operation  in  nationalist  areas  of; 
Londonderry  on  Monday,  is  to  appear  in  court  in  Belfast 
today.  Mary  Ndis  is  charged  with  unlawful  imprisonment  . 
of  a  woman.  Two  men  face  die  same  charge  and  an 
additional  charge  of  intimidation. 

Harrods  acts  over  writ 

Harrods  asked  the  High  Court  yesterday  to  set  aside  a  writ  - 
issued  by  Sir  Alford  Hourtoun-Baswall  47,  principal  Of 
The  Harrodian  School,  who  sent  his  bailiffs  into  the  store, 
to  recover  a  £123.000  legal  bill.  Master  Winegaiten  of  the 
Chancery  Division  agreed  to  stay  the  writ  until  a  hearing 
of  all  parties  next  Monday. 

£15,000  RAF  payout 

An  RAF  medical  assistant  who  claimed  she  was 
wrongfully  sacked  for  being  pregnant  has  won  £15.000 
damages  feom  the  Ministry  of  Defence.  Victoria  Edwards, 
of  Nottingham,  was  dismissed  even  though  the  MoD  had 
changed  its  policy  on  maternity  leave  to  fall  in  tine  with 
European  law. 

Guppy  wins  legal  aid 

Two  High  Court  judges 
yesterday  ruled  that  Darius 
Guppy,  left  serving  five 
years  for  fraud,  was  enti¬ 
tled  to  legal  aid  to  fight 
proceedings  that  could  in¬ 
crease  his  sentence  by  three 
years.  Magistrates  in  Red¬ 
bridge,  London,  had  re¬ 
fused  Guppy,  30.  access  to 
public  funds  after  he  failed 
to  pay  £227.000  compensa¬ 
tion,  and  gave  notice  of 
their  intention  to  start  en¬ 
forcement  proceedings. 

Nuclear  waste  decision 

The  Government  has  opted  for  “dry  stores"  on  land  for 
spent  nuclear  fueL  John  Gummer,  the  Environment 
Secretaiy.  said  yesterday.  The  waste  has  previously  been 
disposed  of  at  sea.  The  siting  of  the  stores  will  be  left  for  the 
operators  of  nuclear  power  stations  to  decide.  Mr  Gummer 
said  in  a  Commons  reply.  Labour  condemned  the  decision. 

BT  loses  Dorset  village 

The  Dorset  village  of  Stud! and  has  ceased  to  exist 
according  to  British  Telecom.  All  500  inhabitants  with  211 
residential  and  39  business  telephone  lines  have  been 
omitted  from  this  year’s  Bournemouth  area  telephone 
directory.  British  Telecom  regretted  the  error  but  said 
printing  a  new  directory  was  not  feasible. 


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SCOTUN*>  CORRESPONDENT 

A  CROSSCOUNTRY  skier 
feared  to  have  frozen  to  death 
after  being  lost  for  three  nights 
m  a  blizzard  in  the  Grampian 
mountains  amazed  rescuers 
yesterday  when  he  walked  to 
safety.  Andrew  Wilson.  44. 
from  Glasgow,  survived  on 
one  Mars  bar  and  snow  and 
sheltered  in  his  bivouac  bag  In 
a  snow  hole  as  temperatures 
fell  to  minus  35C. 

Rescuers  who  had  been 
searchi  ng  for  him  since  he  was 
separated  from  his  skiing 
companion  on  Saturday  said 
he  had  survived  after  spend¬ 
ing  longer  on  the  mountains 
in  such  severe  conditions  than 
anyone  before.  He  was  found, 
confused  and  with  severe  hy¬ 
pothermia,  on  what  rescuers 
from  Braemar  had  decided 


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Red  Dwarf 
rape  claim 
‘a  travesty 
of  the  truth’ 

By  A  Staff  Reporter 

A  WOMAN  who  claims  she 
was  raped  at  the  instigation  of 
Craig  Charles,  star  of  the 
television  comedy  Red  Dwarf, 
by  one  of  his  friends  while 
they  were  high- on  cocaine 
denied  inventing  "a  travesty  of 
the  truth”  yesterday. 

Stephen  Solley  QC,  for  The 
30-year-old  comic.-  suggested 
she  had  set  ouf  to;destroy  his 
client  because  she  was  “gut¬ 
ted"  that  he  was  going  to  get 
married. 

Mr  SoDey  also  suggested 
that  a  third  man  in  her  flat  in 
Clapham,  south  London, 
whom  she  described  as  look¬ 
ing  like  Michael  Portillo,  the 
Employment  Secretary,  was 
“a  figment".  The  38-year-old 
former  dancer  told  Southwark 
Crown  Court:  “I  am  not  mad” 
and  that  she  had  told  police 
the  man  “had  a  build  like 
Michael  Portillo”. 

The  woman  alleges  she  was 
subjected  to  lengthy  sexual 
“torture"  involving  cocaine,  a 
bottle,  a  pen  and  an  orange. 
She  said  she  was  bound  and 
blindfolded,  then  raped  by 
John  Feploe.  She  was  subject¬ 
ed  to  a  series  erf  indecent 
assaults,  including  oral  sex.  by 
the  three  on  July  8  last  year. 

Mr  Charles,  of  Kennhagton. 
and  Mr  Peploe.  36.  a  company 
director  of  Camberwell,  both 
south  London,  deny  a  joint 
charge  of  rape  and  four  joint 
counts  of  indecent  assault 
The  case  continues. 


would  be  the  last  day  of 
searching. 

The  crew  of  a  Royal  Air 
Force  Sea  King  helicopter 
from  HMS  Gannet  saw  him 
waving  his  arm  one  mile 
north  of  the  Glenshee  Ski 
Centre  at  1030am.  Leading 
Aircrewman  Gerry  Flannery 
was  winched  to  the  ground 
and  waded  through  waist- 
deep  snow  to  reach  him.  “He 
was  lying  in  quite  deep  snow 
that  was  drifting,"  he  said. 

Sergeant  Graham  Gibb  of 
Grampian  Police,  who  co¬ 
ordinated  the  three-day 
search,  said:  “He  was  shiver¬ 
ing  badly,  was  very  weak  and 
suffering  from  severe  hypo¬ 
thermia  bur  was  still  con¬ 
scious.  He  must  have  had  the 
will  to  live.  I  have  never  before 
found  anybody  alive  on  the 
fourth  day  of  a  rescue  in  these 
conditions,  or  any  conditions 
for  that  matter."  he  said. 

Mr  Wilson  told  doctors  at 
NineweJls  Hospital  in  Dun¬ 
dee,  where  he  was  recovering 
last  night,  that  after  spending 
two  nights  in  a  snowhole  at 
3,000ft  he  decided  to  descend 
the  mountain  whenever  the 
weather  broke. 

It  was  that  derision  which 
saved  his  life.  On  Monday 
night  he  was  sheltering  at 
2,000ft  on  Cairn  of  Claise'and 
the  relentless  blizzards  that 
had  been  battering  the  moun¬ 
tains  eased,  allowing  him  to 
start  down  the  mountain  in 


Andrew  Wilson  being  carried  into  NineweUs  Hospital.  Dundee.  He  was  suffering  from  hypothermia  after  surviving  temperatures  of  minus  35C 


the  dark.  “He  would  have  had 
to  go  through  waist-high  snow 
during  the  night  but  he  would 
have  been  helped  by  the 
moonlight,"  Mr  Gibb  said. 
“Once  he  came  out  of  his 
snowhole  he  just  kept  going 
and  was  out  all  night  retracing 
his  steps  and  heading  back 
towards  his  car  at  the 
SeanspittaJ  Bridge.  He  was  in 
a  steep  gully  which  automati¬ 


cally  took  him  down  toards  the 
road."  About  90  rescuers  a  day 
were  involved  in  the  search. 
Sergeant  Gibb  said  that  short¬ 
ly  after  Mr  Wilson  was  res¬ 
cued  the  weather  became  so 
bad  that  if  he  had  remained  on 
the  hill  they  would  never  have 
reached  him.  A  derision  had 
already  been  made  in  the 
morning  to  make  yesterday 
the  last  day  of  searching.  Dr 


Bill  Morrison,  the  accident 
and  emergency  consultant  at 
NineweUs  Hospital,  said  yes¬ 
terday;  “He  is  remarkably 
well  and  thankful  that  he  is 
here  with  us.  I  don’t  think 
anyone  expected  him  to  be 
alive.  Whatever  he  is  on.  Ill 
have  some  of  ft." 

Dr  Morrison  said  Mr  Wil¬ 
son  was  suffering  from  hypo¬ 
thermia  and  when  he  was 


admitted  was  asking  for  Ira 
Bru.  the  most  popular  soft 
drink  in  Scotland.  Dr  Ray 
Newton,  consultant  physician, 
said  Mr  Wilson  was  showing 
no  signs  of  frostbite.  He  has 
been  given  warm  fluids  and 
has  been  put  on  a  saline  drip 
to  rehydrate  him.  Dr  Newton 
said;  “He  is  in  very  good 
spirits.  He  is  sitting  up  eating 
toast"  The  skier  told  doctors 


that  he  had  eaten  only  a  Mars 
bar  and  some  snow  while  lost 
in  the  mountains. 

The  two  doctors  said  they 
were  extremely  surprised  by 
Mr  Wilson's  physical  condi¬ 
tion  and  said  he  bad  survived 
by  following  the  survival  code 
to  the  letter.  “He  did  all  the 
correct  things  when  the  wea¬ 
ther  was  very  bad,"  Dr  New¬ 
ton  said. 


‘I  knew  in 
my  heart 
that  he 
was  alive’ 

By  Our  Scotland 
Correspondent 


ANDREW  WILSON’S  wife 
said  last  night  she  had  never 
given  up  hope  that  be  would 
be  found  alive.  Marion  Wil¬ 
son  said:  “I  knew  in  my  heart 
of  hearts  that  be  was  alive. 

“We’re  both  Christians, 
and  a  lot  of  praying  went  on. 
And  last  night  ft  just  came  to 
me  that  be  was  alive.  He  is  in 
remarkable  condition.  He 
said  he  prayed  a  lot  and  he 
draught  about  me." 

Mrs  Wilson,  40,  paid  trib¬ 
ute  to  the  mountain  rescuers, 
whom  she  described  as  mar¬ 
vellous  people.  She  said  that 
her  husband  had  been  hill 
walking  for  20  years,  and  this 
was  the  first  time  he  had  got 
into  difficulties-  She  thought 
his  survival  was  due  to  his 
ability  to  get  himself  off  the 
mountain. 

She  expected  him  to  go 
back  to  the  hills  again. 
“Knowing  Andy,  this  won’t 
stop  him.  I  certainly  won’t 
stop  him.  I’m  his  wife.  I’m  not 
his  keeper.  Andy's  life  is  the 
outdoors." 

Mr  Wilson's  father-in-law. 
Alan  Fielding,  said:  “We  are 
delighted.  We  never  gave  up 
hope.  We  thought  if  anyone 
could  survive  it  would  be 
Andy.  He’s  a  very  experi¬ 
enced  outdoor  person  and  he 
had  the  right  equipment" 


Constable  caught 
31  suspects  with 


THE  PRINCIPLES  OF  INFORMATION: 


Pacino-style  sting  Check  the  validity  of 

By  Stewart  Tendler.  crime  correspondent  •  .  •  **  . 

i  FILM  starring  AI  Pacino  the  bogus  offices  in  return  for  1  "T"  l"-! 

trovided  the  inspiration  for  a  answering  a  questionnaire  \/  ■  ■III  I  I  I  I  I  ml  Ill  I  II  ■  I  I  ■  I 

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A  FILM  starring  AI  Pacino 
provided  the  inspiration  for  a 
police  sting  operation  to  net 
31  of  Sheffield's  most  wanted 
rrhnmal  suspects. 

--  Tempted  by  a-kfter  offer¬ 
ing  the  chance  of  a  free  tele¬ 
vision  and  video  recorder, 
people  who  usually  run  at  the 
sight .  of  a  police  uniform 
eagerly  "walked'  into  die  of¬ 
fices  of  a  market  research 
company  called  Mison 
Giewold  on  Sunday  morn¬ 
ing.  It  was  only  when  the 
attentive  staff  came  forward 
to  arrest  them  that  they 
discovered  the  name  was  an 
anagram  for  Detective  Con¬ 
stable  Simon  Wiegold,  who 
th might  up  the  plan. 

By  the  end  of  the  day, 
police  had  captured  26  men 
and  five  women.  They  includ¬ 
ed  a  man  on  the  run  from 
prison  for  six  months  and  ten 
wanted  for  questioning  about 
burglary,  theft  and  pervert¬ 
ing  the  course  of  justice. 

Yesterday  South  Yorkshire 
police  disclosed  bow  they  de¬ 
ployed  a  technique  already 
used  in  America.  PC  Wie¬ 
gold  took  the  idea  of  a  sting 
to  bring  in  the  suspects  from 
die  film  Sea  of  Love,  in  which 
Pacino  plays  a  New  York 
policeman  who  offers  free 
baseball  tickets  to  criminals 
who  are  arrested  when  they 
turn  up  for  them.  In  Sheffield 
the  suspects  were  invited  by 
letter  to  take  part  in  a  draw  at 


the  bogus  offices  in  return  for 
answering  a  questionnaire 
on  the  quality  of  televisions 
and  video  recorders. 

Yesterday  Superintendent 
Stephen  King,  in  charge  of 
tile  operation,  said  the  sting 
had  meant  the  suspects  were 
arrested  without  violence. 
“One  or  two  said:  That's  a 
bloody  good  scam.*  There 
were  one  or  two  congratula¬ 
tions."  Others  said  they 
would  never  live  it  down. 

PC  Wiegold  said  police 
had  discovered  that  one  man 
was  no  longer  wanted  so  they 
gave  him  some  drinks.  Im¬ 
pressed,  be  went  home  and 
persuaded  his  girlfriend  to 
return  with  him.  She  was 
wanted  and  police  arrested 
her. 


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By  A  Staff  Reporter 

A  FATHER  found  his  12-year- 
old  son  hanging  by  a  pyjama 
cord  in  his  bedroom  after 
being  told  off  for  smoking. 

Glen  Dobson  said  yesterday 
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light  from  the  television.  “1 
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tried  mouth-to-mouth  resusd- 
tation.  “1  was  desperately 
trying  to  blow  the  life  back 
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cold.  In  my  heart  1  knew  my 
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fighting  with  his  sister  Mandy 
and  had  been  caught  smok¬ 
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the  times  Wednesday  February  22 1995 _ 

Clergy  condemn 
moves  to  replace 
'  ‘job  for  life’  system 


HOME  NEWS 


CLERGY  in  the  Church  of 
England  were  yesterday  in 
open  rebellion  against  moves 
i?  abolish  their  freehold,  the 
job  for  life”  that  has  tradition¬ 
ally  given  them  homes  and 
security  of  tenure.  The  dergy, 
meeting  at  Church  House, 
Westminster,  demanded  that 
bishops,  deans  and  provosts 
shouJd  also  lose  their  freehold. 

•  Jhe  meeting  was  a  rare 
independent  gathering  of  the 
Km  vocation  of  clergy  in  the 
Canterbury  province,  which 
represents  more  than  7.000 
clergymen  in  southern  Eng¬ 
land  and  the  Midlands.  To¬ 
gether  with  the  York  province, 
which  represents  the  rest  of 
England,  they  normally  meet 
with  bishops  and  laity  as  part 
of  the  General  Synod. 

The  meeting  condemned 
moves  to  replace  the  ancient 
freehold  with  a  leasehold  sys- 
g  tem  and  to  introduce  modern 
9  management-style  assessment 
systems. 

The  90  clergy  threw  out 
motions  that  laid  down  condi¬ 
tions  under  which  the  freehold 
could  be  abolished,  most  in¬ 
sisting  that  the  freehold 

Malicious 
telephone 
calls  cut 
by  20% 

By  Eric  Reguly 

HEAVY  breathers,  hoaxers 
and  hapless  lovers  have  been 
dealt  a  severe  blow  by  the  new 
ca!  ler-iden  rificati  on  services 
offered  by  BT.  the  company 
said  yesterday. 

Its  caller-display  and  eall- 
retum  services,  introduced  in 
early  November,  have  result¬ 
ed  in  a20  per  cent  reduction  In 
the  number  of  reported  mali¬ 
cious  calls.  By  January,  die 
average  number  of  monthly 
complaints  had  fallen  from 
57.000  to  45,000. 

Michael  Biden,  BTs  direc¬ 
tor  of  sales,  said:  “This  repre¬ 
sents  a  very  real  reduction  in  i 
human  anxiety  and  fear."  The  ’ 
number  of  hoax  999  emergen-  1 
cy  calls  had  fallen  try  a  similar 
amount.  "All  the  signs  are  that 
die  drop  is  down  to  hoaxers 
getting  the  message  that  their  1 
calls  can  be  traced,"  Mr  Biden 
said. 

BT  said  that  the  services, 
while  making  it  easy  for 
customers  to  identify  callers,  I 
has  not  necessarily  made  it 
easier  to  track  and  prosecute 
offenders  because  the  com¬ 
pany  had  had  the  ability  to 
trace  calls  for  sane  time,  and  1 
routinely  cooperated  with  the  < 
police  on  such  matters.  ; 

There  is  no  charge  for  the 
call-return  service,  which  is  ] 
available  across  the  country.  It  1 
allows  you  to  check  the  num-  j 
ber  of  the  last  caller,  but  not  i 
the  ones  before  that,  by  dial-  i 
ling  1471.  BT  said  the  1471 
feature  was  attracting  almost 
three  million  calls  a  day.  It  has  1 
recognised,  however,  that  1 
callers  have  rights,  too.  If  they  i 
dial  141  before  the  telephone  « 
number  they  wish  to  call,  their  1 
own  number  will  not  be  1 
recorded.  i 


By  Ruth  Gledhill.  religion  correspondent 


should  not  go  at  all.  A  report  of 
the  heated  debate  will  be  put 
before  the  General  Synod 
when  it  next  meets  in  July.  The 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  Or 
George  Carey,  is  thought  to 
favour  the  abolition  of  the 
freehold  and  regular  dergy 
assessment 

Canon  Edwin  Barnes,  prin¬ 
cipal  of  St  Stephen’s  House, 
Oxford,  a  high  church  theolog¬ 
ical  college,  said:  “The  only 
freeholds  we  need  to  remove 
are  those  for  the  dignitaries. 
Competition  at  the  top  is  no 
bad  thing.  If  bishops  moved 
on  every  five  years  it  would  a 
very  good  thing.  They  could  go 
to  more  important  and  cre¬ 
ative  jobs  in  the  parishes." 

He  said  the  confidence  of 
parish  clergy  needed  to  be 
increased,  not  diminished. 
“Unless  we  do  that  we  are 
fiddling  around  and  ~  the 
Church  is  going  to  decay  and 
disappear." 

Unlike  ministers  in  most 
other  churches,  two-thirds  of 
the  11.000  stipendiary  dergy 
in  the  Church  of  England  have 
whai  is  known  as  the  “ par¬ 
son’s  freehold".  They  remain 

First-half 
score  goes 
to  rugby 
woman 

By  Marianne  Curph  ey 

A  WOMAN  rugby  official 
won  a  legal  victory  in  her  sex 
discrimination  battle  with  the 
English  Rugby  Football 
Union  yesterday.  Beverley 
Davis.  35.  wants  to  be  the  first 
woman  on  its  national 
committee. 

A  county  court  judge  grant¬ 
ed  her  an  injunction  restrain¬ 
ing  the  union  from  acting 
against  her  efforts  to  stand  as 
a  representative  for  Cornwall 
or  from  taking  her  seat  if  she  is 
elected.  She  argued  that  the 
union  had  scuppered  her 
hopes  of  success  in  next 
month's  election  by  declaring 
women  were  not  eligible  to  sit 
on  the  committee. 

Judge  Bishop,  sitting  at 
Brentford.  County  Court, 
which  covers  the  union's  head¬ 
quarters  at  Twickenham,  said 
the  union  had  had  ample  time 
to  sort  out  the  rules  concern¬ 
ing  women  serving  on  the 
national  committee.  The  delay 
had  disadvantaged  Mrs  Da- 
vis:  "The  defendants  have 
appeared  to  treat  her  less 
favourably  than  the  men." 

The  issue  of  whether  the 
union  has  been  guilty  of  sex 
discrimination  will  be  decided 
at  a  separate  hearing  in  May. 
Mrs  Davis,  a  dentist  at 
Heist  on  whose  case  has  been 
backed  by  the  Equal  Opportu¬ 
nities  Commission,  has 
agreed  to  step  down  if  the 
court  finds  that  the  union 
acted  lawfully. 

The  union  said  the  court 
had  not  found  it  guilty  of 
unlawful  discrimination. 
Dudley  Wood,  the  secretary, 
said:  “It  has  never  been  the 
union’s  intention  to  impede  or 
hinder  Mrs  Davis  from  stand¬ 
ing  for  election." 


‘Too  lenient’  parking 
attendant  suspended 

By  Ian  Murray,  community  correspondent 


A  PARKING  attendant  with 
a  reputation  for  being  kind  to 
motorists  has  been  suspend¬ 
ed  on  fuD  pay  pending  inves¬ 
tigations  into  allegations  that 
he  let  off  too  many  offenders. 

The  investigations  are 
being  carried  out  by  Sterling 
Granada,  the  private  com¬ 
pany  that  won  a  contract  lo 
regulate  on-street  parking  for 
Avon  County  Council  last 
September. 

John  Browne.  42.  the  sus¬ 
pended  attendant,  was  re¬ 
sponsible  for  adjudicating 
appeals  against  penalties  for 
parking  offences  in  Bath. 


Colleagues  say  he  would  of¬ 
ten  <nn«»l  tickets  issued  to 
foreign  visitors  and  people 
who  persuaded  him  they  had 
a  genuine  reason  for  parting 
too  long  in  the  wrong  place. 

Earlier  this  month  he  was 
sacked  from  his  £15.000-a- 
year  job  but  was  reinstated 
on  appeal  pending  the  inves¬ 
tigation.  Next  Monday  he 
will  be  told  whether  the 
company  wfll  keep  him  on. 

Mr  Browne  refused  to 
comment  hot  one  colleague 
said:  “John  was  always  very 
fair  and  he  always  looked  at 
the  Eads  of  each  case.” 


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benefices  until  they  die  or 
reach  retirement  at  70,  and  are 
required  by  canon  law  to  live 
in  the  rectory  or  vicarage. 

The  Rev  Roger  Arguile. 
team  vicar  of  St  Bertelin's, 
Stafford,  and  chairman  of  the 
Lichfield  diocesan  house  of 
dergy.  said  the  loss  of  morale 
among  clergy  was  already 
causing  many  to  seek  secular 
employment.  "1  do  not  think 
the  Church  of  England  has 
anything  like  die  machinery 
or  any  concept  of  what  ma¬ 
chinery  would  be  appropriate 
for  proper  appraisal  and 
career  developmenL" 

The  Ven  John  Burgess. 
Archdeacon  of  Bath,  called  for 
“very  great  caution".  If  the 
freehold  was  to  be  abolished  it  I 
would  have  to  indude  the  i 
freehold  held  by  bishops, 
archdeacons  and  deans.  “If 
you  are  going  to  go  down  this 
road,  the  house  of  bishops 
should  give  a  lead."  He  said 
the  concept  of  leaseholds  and 
of  management-style  job  ap¬ 
praisals  would  “discourage 
vocations  to  the  ministry 
altogether". 


Company 

director 

resigns 

after 

soccer  riot 

By  Andrew  Fierce 


A  COMPANY  director  seen 
hurling  timber  into  the  crowd 
during  last  week’s  soccer  riot 
in  Dublin  has  been  forced  to 
resign  by  his  fellow  directors 
who  were  at  the  England- 
Ireland  match  during  a 
goodwill  trade  mission. 

Hie  directors  are  to  re¬ 
name  the  Tewkesbury  com¬ 
pany,  GMAC  Forest  Prod¬ 
ucts.  which  was  named  after 
Graham  McNulty.  He  is  be¬ 
lieved  to  be  associated  with  a 
far-right  group  which  yester¬ 
day  claimed  responsibility 
for  orchestrating  the  trouble. 
The  directors  feared  that  the 
company’s  future  would  be 
jeopardised  if  Mr  McNulty, 
the  company  founder,  stayed 
on  the  payroll. 

Mr  McNulty  and  his  col¬ 
leagues,  who  have  extensive 
business  links  with  Ireland, 
had  gone  to  the  Republic  to 
tiy  to  win  more  business.  Two 
of  the  directors  entertained 
Irish  customers  at  the  match. 
It  was  on  (heir  return  to 
England,  when  Mr  McNul¬ 
ty’s  photograph  was  embla¬ 
zoned  over  the  newspapers. 


Graham  McNulty  photographed  at  the  Republic  of  Ireland  match  against  England  at  Lansdowne  Road  last  week 


that  his  colleagues  realised 
that  he  had  been  involved. 

Gloucestershire  police  are 
examining  a  document  claim¬ 
ing  to  be  from  the  "Chelten¬ 
ham  Volunteer  Force",  which 
left  its  calling  card  on  the  ter¬ 
races.  It  states:  “England  In¬ 
vasion  of  Dublin  1995.  Ulster 
is  British.  No  Surrender." 
The  document  was  handed  in 
to  a  local  newspaper  in 
Cheltenham  yesterday. 

In  the  document,  the  org¬ 
anisation.  members  of  which 
go  to  see  Aston  Villa,  which 


Mr  McNulty  supports,  says: 
“The  Cheltenham  Volunteer 
Force  is  a  secret  organisation 
started  in  1985  by  football 
supporters  of  England.  Hie 
trouble  io  Dublin  was  orches¬ 
trated  by  us  to  give  the  Eng¬ 
lish  supporters  their  chance 
to  teach  the  Republicans  that 
the  people  of  Britain  will  not 
give  in  to  the  intimidation 
and  murders  regularly  com¬ 
mitted  by  the  IRA." 

Combat  18,  another  far- 
right  organisation,  which  is  a 
splinter  movement  of  the 


British  National  Party,  sent 
at  least  50  members  lo  last 
week’s  match.  Members  of 
the  organisation  were  seen 
taking  part  in  the  riots  in 
Rotterdam  in  1993  after  En¬ 
gland's  World  Cap  hopes 
vanished  when  they  were 
beaten  by  Holland. 

Mr  McNulty,  who  has  not 
spoken  since  his  role  was 
exposed,  is  currently  in 
America. 

□  Hie  Garda  team  investi¬ 
gating  the  Dublin  football 
riot  is  expected  lo  arrive  in 


London  for  talks  with  Foot¬ 
ball  Association  officials  and 
British  police  within  a  week. 

A  Garda  spokeswoman 
said  FA  officials  had  stayed 
in  Dublin  until  the  weekend 
to  help  the  Garda  team  lo 
start  the  work  of  identifying 
the  English  rioters.  The 
Garda  were  planning  to  seek 
extradition,  she  said. 

FA  officials  believe  (hat 
they  and  police  have  isolated 
a  group  of  40  at  the  core  of 
the  trouble  and  many  of  these 
have  been  Identified. 


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crime  to  be  asked 
for  views  on  cases 


VICTIMS  of  violent  crime  are 
to  be  asked  for  their  opinions 
on  prosecutions  and  the  grant¬ 
ing  of  baiL  the  Director  of 
Public  Prosecutions  an¬ 
nounced  yesterday.  In  the 
past,  Barbara  Mills,  QC  said, 
victims  had  had  too  little 
influence  on  decisions  to  pros¬ 
ecute  but  they  were  no  longer 
the  “forgotten  people  in  the 
criminal  justice  system1'. 

Mrs  Mills  told  a  conference 
in  London  organised  by  the 
charity  Victim  Support:  “We 
must  do  more  to  give  them  a 
voice,  within  the  proper  con¬ 
straints  imposed  by  die  need 
to  respect  defendants’  rights  to 
a  fair  trial  in  accordance  with 
the  law. 

“Their  voices  cannot  dictate 
but  they  must  be  heard  if  we 
are  to  avoid  them  feeling 
doubly  victimised,  once  by  the 


By  Lucy  Berrington 

criminal  and  once  by  the 
criminal  justice  system." 

From  next  month,  police 
will  routinely  seek  the  views  of 
victims  and  pass  them  to  the 
Crown  Prosecution  Service, 
where  they  will  influence  the 
decisions  made,  Mrs  Mills 
said  She  added  that  the  views 
of  victims  would  be  taken  into 
account  “whether  put  forward 
in  their  own  statements,  in 
information  supplied  by  the 
police  or  in  compensation 
claims”. 

The  policy  is  to  be  set  out 
next  month  in  an  updated 
version  of  the  Police  Guidance 
Manual  which.  Mrs  Mills 
said,  would  say  that  "in  most 
severe  cases  police  will  rou¬ 
tinely  search  out  the  victim’s 
view  s  and  put  them  before  the 
court".  Those  views  would  be 
entered  on  the  case  file  that 


£10m  in  property 
stolen  eveiy  day 

By  James  Landale,  political  reporter 


CRIME  costs  England  and 
Wales  more  than  £20  billion  a 
year.  Labour  said  yesterday. 
Property  worth  about  £10  mil- 
lion  is  stolen  every  day,  the 
party  said  in  a  report  compiled 
from  official  statistics  and 
other  sources. 

The  bulk  of  the  cost  comes 
from  the  criminal  justice  sys¬ 
tem.  which  costs  £9.5  billion 
each  year,  roughly  £422  per 
taxpayer,  the  report  claims. 
The  cost  to  business  is  estimat¬ 
ed  at  £7.5  billion  through 
actual  crime  and  crime 
prevention. 

The  study  found  that  more 
than  half  of  households  were 
not  insured  against  loss  and 
that  the  cost  of  house  and  car 
insurant*  rose  by  more  than 
20  per  cent  in  real  terms 
between  19S8  and  1992  to  an 
average  of  £556  a  year.  Goods 
worth  £35  billion  were  stolen 
in  recorded  crimes  of  bur¬ 


glary,  robbery  and  theft  in 
1993,  the  report  said-  That  sum 
included  £993  million  stolen  in 
recorded  crimes  of  burglary, 
E56  million  in  recorded  crimes 
of  robbery  and  £2,419  million 
in  recorded  crimes  of  theft  — 
which  meant  an  average  £10 
million  of  property  was  stolen 
every  day. 

Jack  Straw,  the  Shadow 
Home  Secretary,  said  the 
report  underlined  why  the 
Government  had  “lost  ail 
claim  to  be  the  party  of  law 
and  order".  He  said:  “We  are 
all  paying  the  price  of  the  Tory 
failure  to  tackle  crime.  For 
those  of  us  lucky  enough  not  to 
have  been  victimised,  the  indi¬ 
rect  cost  of  crime  is  borne  in 
higher  insurance  premiums, 
the  higher  price  of  goods  and 
in  tax.  Our  report  reinforces 
the  need  for  an  effective  policy 
to  cut  offending  and  reduce  the 
costs  of  crime.” 


goes  to  the  Crown  Prosecution 
Service.  With  lesser  offences, 
police  would  not  actively  seek 
a  victim’s  views  but  if  they 
were  known,  they  would  be 
included  in  the  file. 

Mrs  Mills  acknowledged 
that  until  now  victims  had  had 
too  little  influence.  The  new 
policy  would  ensure  that  their 
fears  about  the  consequences 
of  bail,  including  the  risk  of 
intimidation  or  harassment, 
were  put  before  the  courts.  She 
added  that  she  wanted  to  see 
the  views  of  victims  affect  the 
decision  to  prosecute  where 
possible. 

Since  June  last  year  the 
Crown  Prosecution  Service 
has  had  the  power  to  appeal 
against  magistrates’  decisions 
to  grant  bail  and  has  been 
successful  in  70  per  cent  of 
cases.  The  director  said  that 
many  of  the  CPS  staff  would 
like  to  do  more  for  victims  but 
were  hindered  by  established 
priorities  and  lack  of 
resources. 

However,  a  series  of  steps 
had  been  taken  towards  giv¬ 
ing  victims  more  support.  For 
example,  the  code  for  Crown 
prosecutors,  which  was  re¬ 
written  last  year,  made  dear 
that  victims  must  be  consid¬ 
ered  when  establishing  where 
the  public  interest  lay.  “It  is  a 
prindple  which  the  CPS  is 
absolutely  determined  to  fol¬ 
low,"  she  said. 

Helen  Reeves,  director  of 
Victim  Support  said  the  law 
should  be  reformed  to  give 
victims  of  crime  enforceable 
rights.  Despite  die  Govern¬ 
ment's  Victim’s  Charter,  pub¬ 
lished  five  years  ago,  victims 
suffered  a  lack  of  consultation, 
protection,  recognition  and 
information. 

“Offenders  have  dear  rights 
in  our  system  of  justice  but 
victims  have  no  enforceable 
rights  under  the  law.  We 
believe  victims  should  have 
the  right  to  be  protected  and 
respected  and  the  right  to 
know  what  is  happening  in 
their  case  and  why."  she  told 
the  conference. 


RHSat 
odds  over 
site  for 
famous 
library 

By  John  Young 


A  PROPOSAL  to  move  the 

world-renowned  Lindley  Li¬ 
brary  is  to  be  put  to  an 
extraordinary  general  meet¬ 
ing  of  the  Royal  Hortical- 
turaj  Society. 

Members  of  the  society 
are  at  odds  over  whether  to 
locate  the  library,  currently 
in  Westminster,  at  a  nearby 
site  formerly  occupied  by 
Rochester  Row  police  star 
lion  or  at  the  RHS  head¬ 
quarters  at  Wisley,  Surrey. 

The  Lindley  Library  was 
established  in  1886  and  con¬ 
tains  about  50,000  volumes 
dating  from  1514  to  the 
present,  about  18,000  botan¬ 
ical  drawings  and  a  vast 
collection  of  periodicals  and 
catalogues. 

Anna  Pavord,  one  of  the 
leading  objectors  to  a  move 
to  Wisley,  told  the  society’s 
annual  general  meeting  yes¬ 
terday  that  the  Rochester 
Row  plan,  drawn  up  by  the 
architect  Rick  Mather,  of¬ 
fered  an  opportunity  to  cre¬ 
ate  a  superb  new  site  in  the 
library’s  traditional 
heartland. 

Ms  Pavord  said  that  she 
and  others  opposed  to  the 
Wisley  move  had  been 
forced  to  requisition  an 
extraordinary  general  meet¬ 
ing,  to  be  held  in  a  few 
weeks,  because  members  of 
the  council  had  refused  all 
requests  for  the  library  to  be 
debated  at  tile  AGM. 

She  said  the  Rochester 
Row  site,  which  would  be 
coming  on  the  market  soon, 
would  provide  an  opportu¬ 
nity  for  the  RHS  to  demon¬ 
strate  the  principles  that  it 
should  be  upholding.  “We 
see  this  as  an  unmistakable 
chance  for  the  RHS  to  lead 
the  way  in  the  greening  of 
this  dty."  she  said.  ‘The 
library  would  occupy  only 
about  a  quarter  of  the  9300 
sq  ft  site.  The  rest  could  be 
devoted  to  gardens  to  which 
the  public  would  have  ac¬ 
cess."  Ms  Pavord  estimated 


WEDNESDAY  FEBRUARY  22 1995 

it 


The  Lindley  Library,  in  Westminster,  attracts  only  about  1.800  visits  a  year 


that  at  best  the  plan  would 
cost  slightly  less  than  the  £3 
ruffian  predicted  for  the 
move  to  Wisley.  and  at  worst 
about  £3  million  more.  In 
the  latter  case,  however, 
much  of  the  difference 
could  be  recouped  from 
exhibitions  and  displays. 

“A  library  of  the  status  of 
the  lindley  should  be  in 
London,"  she  told  the  AGM 
to  loud  applause.  “Do  not 
turn  your  backs  on  (his 
great  great  chance."  Earlier 


Sir  Simon  Hornby,  the  soci¬ 
ety's  president  had  urged 
members  not  to  forget  that 
the  main  purpose  of  the 
library  was  to  further  the 
interests  of  the  society.  For 
many  years  it  had  been 
acknowledged  the  the  build¬ 
ing  in  Vincent  Square  was 
inadequate. 

The  council  had  so  far 
received  537  representa¬ 
tions.  of  which  469  felt  that 
access  to  Wisley  would  be 
too  difficult  and  48  were  in 


favour  of  the  move.  He  said 
that  even  in  London  the 
library  was  not  extensively 
used,  with  about  1.800  visits 
a  year  —  less  less  than  1  per 
cent  of  the  membership. 

The  gardens  at  Wisley.  on 
the  other  hand,  attracted 
more  than  600.000  visitors  a 
year.  If  the  library  did  move, 
a  reading  room  would  be 
retained  at  Vincent  Square, 
to  which  all  but  tile  most 
valuable  books  could  be 
brought 


MP  wants 
24-hour 
watch  on  * 
Mrs  West 

Rosemary  West,  who  was 
committed  for  Crown  Coan  • 
trial  on  ten  murder  charges  . 
last  week,  should  be  kept  .. 
under  24-hour  surveillance. 
the  Gloucester  MP  Douglas 
French  has  told  Derek  Lewis.  ■- 
the  Prison  Service'  chief  exeai-  : 
tive.  Mrs  West's  husband 
Frederick  committed  suicide 

on  New  Year’s  Day. 

Brothers  shot 

Two  brothers  aged  18  and  20 
were  in  hospital  after  a  strang¬ 
er  shot  them  in  the  teg  and 
killed  their  rottweiler  during; 
an  argument  on  waste  ground 
m  Newcastle  upon  Tyne.  . 

Museum  raided 

Anglo-Saxon  jewellery  valued 
at  £90.000  has  been  stolen 
from  the  Rutland  County  Mu- . 
seum  in  Oakham.  Leicester- 
shire.  Nine  sets  of  bronze-gib  k 
brooches  were  taken. 

Aupairtiedup 

A  seven-year-old  giriandan 
au  pair  were  tied  up  by  three 
armed  raiders  —  one  carrying 
an  axe  —  who  ransacked  their  . 
home  in  Epping  Green,  Essex. 

The  men  all  wore  balaclavas. 

Sole  searching . 

A  Japanese  tourist  has  sent  a 
pair  of  shoes  6,000  miles  to  - 
Cheltenham  for  repair.  Last 
month  the  cobbler  made  no 
charge  for  polishing  a  pair  the  . 
visitor  was  wearing. 

Off  course 

Lennie  Learmouth,  62,  found 
a  401b  pike  when  he  searched  ' 
for  a  ball  in  a  flooded  bunker  •• 
al  Wetherby  Golf  Club,  Wot 
Yorkshire.  The  fish  was  set 
free  in  a  river. 

Owl  rescued 

Firemen  were  called  out  to  .. 
rescue  a  bam  owl  that  had' 
become  entangled  In  a  trie- 
vision  aerial,  in  Chatham, 
Kent  The  owl  was  safriy 
reunited  with  its  owner.  . 


COUNTDOWN  TO  PHONEDAY 
FOR  BUSINESSES 


Wtfi  less  than  two  BWrrtfts  id  go  until  PMNEdjy  on  16  April,  the  countPown  is  on  lor  businesses  to  prepare  for  the  day  when  an  UK 
nxeptone  ew*?s  change.  As  Urn  away.  Mercury  is  urging  businesses  not  la  leave  it  to  the  lest  minute  to  get  ttmtr  phone 
equipment  realty  (or  the  change. 


PhONEday  on  April  16, 
when  all  the  UK 
telephone  numbers 
will  change,  is  less 
than  two  months 
away. 

Mercury  customers 
who  have  not 
contacted  their  phone 
system  maintainer 
need  to  do  so  as  soon 
as  possible  to  be 
advised  on  changes 
needed  to  their  phone 
system  before 

PhONEday. 

Some  businesses 
could  see  their  phone 


bills  increase  if  they  do 
not  upgrade  their 
system  because  the 
device  which  routes  all 
their  long  distance  and 
international  calls  over 
Mercury  may  no  longer 
recognise  the  new 
codes. 

Mercury  customers 
who  need  he/p  can  cail 
0500  04  1995  for 
further  information. 

Planning  for  PhONEday 
involves  more  than  a 
simple  upgrade  to  the 
phone  system. 

Research  carried  out 


by  Mercury 

Communications  has 
shown  that  most  com¬ 
panies  still  do  not 
understand  the  full 
implications  of  the 
forthcoming  number 
change. 

A  Mercury  spokes¬ 
person  said,  “While 
most  businesses,  for 
example,  have  started 
changing  the  phone 
numbers  on  their  office 
stationery,  few  have 
altered  their  office 
signs,  alarm  systems 
or  updated  their 
customer  databases." 


What  to  do. 

•  Give  someone  in  your 
company  overall 
responsibility  for  the 
changes. 

•  Ensure  your  system 
is  upgraded  by  ringing 
your  maintainer.  If  you 
have  any  problems  with 
this,  cail  the  Mercury 
Helpdesk  on  0500  04 
1995. 

•  Update  all  internal 
databases  and  mailing 
lists. 

•  Reprint  your  station¬ 
ery  including:  letter¬ 
head,  fax  sheets, 
compliment  slips. 


Invoices,  and  business 
cards. 

•  Check  to  see  if  you're 
V  -  listed  in  any  directories 

and  make  the 
necessary 
amendments. 

•  Change  fire  and 
security  alarm  systems 
which  automatically  dial 
specific  numbers  (your 
insurance  may  be 
invalid  if  these  are  not 
upgraded). 

•  Update  messages  on 

voicemail  and 

answering  machines. 

•  Re-programme 
stored  numbers  on 
fax  machines, 
telephones  and 
modems.  Remember 
to  make  a  note  of  the 
number  before  you 
start  to  update  as  it  will 
be  erased  once  the 
new  number  is  entered. 

•  Change  personal 
telephone  records. 

•  Ensure  that  all 
employees  are  aware 
of  the  changes, 
especially  switchboard 
and  reception  staff. 

•  Alter  company 
promotional  literature, 
vehicle  livery  and 
product  packaging. 

•  As  soon  as.  your 
system  is  upgraded, 


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don’t  forget 
to  remind  staff  to  start 
using  the  numbers 
immediately.  They 
don't  have  to  wart  until 
16  April. 

•  Tell  ail  clients, 
especially  those 
overseas,  of  your  new 
numbers,  both  fax  and 
telephone. 

Many  people  don't 
realise  that  the 
international  dialling 
prefix  is  also  changing 

on  PhONEday. 

To  call  customers 
overseas  you  will  need 
to  dial  *00’  in  place  of 


‘010’. 

There  are  five  cities  in 
the  UK  -  Leeds, 
Sheffield,  Nottingham, 
Bristol,  Leicester  -  that 


pletely  new  codes 
instead  of  an 
additional  T. 

Mobile  phone  users 
will  be  pleased  to 
know  that  there  will  be 
no  extra  numbers 
added  to  their 
telephone  codes. 

FreeCall  numbers, 
premium  services  and 
operator  numbers 
remain  unchanged. 

Without  a  doubt,  the 
most  vital  preparation 
for  PhONEday  is 
ensuring  that  your 
phone  system  will  be 
able  to  recognise  the 
new  codes. 

Simply  call  your  dealer 
who  can  perform  any 
changes  in  a  matter  of 
minutes. 

If  you  have  any  general 
queries  or  need  any 
advice  about  the  code 
change,  calf  the' 

Mercury  FreeCall 


will  be  more  affected  by  Helpdesk  on  0500  04 

PhONEday  than  others.  1995  which  will  be  able 

_  ^  to  answer  your  queries. 

These  are  the  only  cities 

which  will  have  com- 


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Home  Office 
rejects  calls 
for  review  of 
rape  secrecy 

Bv  Frances  Gibb,  legal  correspondent 


THE  Home  Office  yesterday 
naed  out  a  review  of  the  law  to 
consider  whether  defendants 
in  rape  cases,  as  well  as  the 
alleged  victims,  should  be 
granted  anonymity. 

The  decision,  in  the  wake  of 
the  acquittal  of  a  police  consta¬ 
ble  on  Monday,  sparked  a 
dash  between  lawyers  over 
the  need  for  reforms. 

Sir  Frederick  Lawton,  a 
former  Court  of  Appeal  judge, 
who  said  be  had  "probably 
heard  more  rape  cases  than 
any  other  living  person",  said 
defendants  should  be  given 
anonymity  until  found  guilty. 

This  was  recommended  in 
1984  by  the  Criminal  Law 
Revision  Committee  in  its 
report  on  sexual  offences  but 
rejected  by  Parliament 

Sir  Frederick  said:  “My 
view,  and  that  of  the  commit¬ 
tee.  was  that  if  the  victim  has 
anonymity,  so  should  the  de¬ 
fendant.  Why  should  this  un¬ 
fortunate  young  policeman 
have  his  name  all  over  the 
press?  It  is  quite  unfair." 

Yesterday  the  woman  of¬ 
ficer  who  accused  PC  Michael 
Seear  of  rape  said  she  sympa¬ 
thised  with  calls  for  both 
parties  in  such  trials  to  remain 
anonymous.  The  woman,  who 
cannot  be  named  and  whose 
words  were  spoken  by  an 
actress,  told  BBC  Radio  4's 
World  at  One:  “Looking  at  it 
objectively  l  can  see  that  both 


Lawton:  sympathy  for 
"unfortunate  poHcemaiT 


parties  should  be  anony¬ 
mous."  The  woman,  'aged  25, 
added:  “You  can  look  at  it  like 
this:  he  may  have  had  his  pho¬ 
tograph  in  the  papers  as  the 
accused  but  at  least  he  has  got 
a  chance  to  clear  his  name . . .” 

PC  Seear.  who  was  cleared 
at  the  Old  Bailey  of  raping  the 
woman  after  a  New  Year's  Eve 

party,  was  yesterday  reinstat¬ 
ed  by  Surrey  Police  after  a  ten- 
month  suspension.  He  is 
expected  to  take  time  off  before 
returning  to  work. 

Sir  Frederick's  call  for  ano¬ 
nymity  for  defendants  was 
criticised  by  Jennifer  Temkin. 
professor  of  law  at  Sussex 
University  and  author  of  Rape 
and  the  Legal  Process  (Sweet 
&  Maxwell).  She  said  that  ft 
would  conflict  with  the  princi¬ 
ple  of  open  justice.  “No  other 
defendants  are  granted  ano¬ 
nymity.  so  why  single  out  the 
alleged  rapist  for  privileged 
treatment?" 

She  said  that  if  anonymity 
were  granted,  it  would  have  to 
apply  to  all  defendants,  rais¬ 
ing  “the  whole  question  of 
whether  the  public's  right  for 
information,  and  the  question 
of  open  justice,  should  take 
precedence  over  protecting  the 
rights  of  defendants". 

Anonymity  now  extends  to 
alleged  victims  of  all  sexual 
attacks.  The  only  other  catego¬ 
ry  granted  anonymity  is  black¬ 
mail  victims. 

There  was  no  support  yes¬ 
terday  for  removing  the  al¬ 
leged  victim's  anonymity  in 
the  event  of  an  acquittal. 
Lawyers  said  this  would  deter 
victims  from  coming  forward. 

Barbara  Hewson.  vice-chair 
of  the  Association  of  Women 
Barristers,  said:  “When  you 
consider  that  only  a  tiny 
proportion  of  instances  of  rape 
ever  result  in  a  conviction, 
because  only  a  small  number 
are  reported  and  of  those  only 
a  small  number  proceed  and 
result  in  a  guilty  verdict,  then 
all  this  gnashing  and  wailing 
of  teeth  over  the  odd  defendant 
who  finds  himself  in  the  dock 
Is  grossly  overdone." 


Law,  page  42 


TONY  WHITE 


Pamela  Tulk-Hart  she  flew  Spitfires,  Mustangs,  Hurricanes  and  Typhoons 


Pioneer  who  flew 
solo  after  12  hours 

By  Michael  Evans,  defence  correspondent 
AS  the  RAF  unveiled  its  first  Hart  who  lives  near 


female  Tornado  pilot  yester¬ 
day,  one  of  the  few  women 
who  Oew  combat  aircraft  in 
the  Second  World  War 
recalled  her  days  in  the 
cockpit  for  the  Air  Transport 
Auxiliary. 

More  than  50  years  before 
Flight  Lieutenant  Jo  Salter 
took  off  in  her  Tornado  GR1 
strike  aircraft  as  a  qualified 
jet  fighter  pilot.  Third  Of¬ 
ficer  Pamela  Tulk-Hart  was 
flying  Spitfires.  Hurricanes, 
Mustangs  and  Typhoons  for 
the  war  effort.  It  took 
another  45  years  of  peace 
before  the  RAF  decided  —  in 
1989— that  women  should  be 
allowed  a  flying  career  in  the 
service  again  but  only  in  a 
non-combat  role.  That  chan¬ 
ged  in  1991  when  ministers 
derided  to  break  the  taboo 
and  train  women  to  fly  fast 
jet  combat  aircraft. 

Mrs  Tulk-Hart,  76.  was 
one  of  30  women  in  the  Air 
Transport  Auxiliary  who 
were  (rusted  to  deliver  new 
bombers  and  fighters  from 
the  factories  to  their  bases  in 
Britain,  and  also  to  under¬ 
take  the  dangerous  job  of 
flying  damaged  aircraft  to 
repair  facilities. 

Recalling  those  days,  bat¬ 
tling  against  appalling  wea¬ 
ther  conditions  without 
today’s  sophisticated  naviga¬ 
tion  systems.  Mrs  Tulk-Hart 
wished  Fit  11  Salter  good 
luck  in  her  pioneering  com¬ 
bat  flying  career.  Mrs  Tulk- 


Uckfield,  Sussex,  joined  the 
ATA  in  1942  at  the  age  of  22. 
She  had  no  flying  experience 
and  after  only  12  hours  she 
went  solo  for  the  first  time  in 
a  Miles  M agister  trainer.  “1 
learnt  to  spin  in  a  Tiger 
Moth,"  she  said. 

Although  she  was  never 
allowed  to  fly  in  combat 
missions,  Mrs  Tulk-Hart 
said  she  faced  many  hazard¬ 
ous  moments.  Her  worst 
experiences  came  when  she 
had  to  fly  aircraft  stamped 
“NEA".  She  said:  "These 
were  ‘Not  Essentially  Air¬ 
worthy'  planes  which  we  had 
to  take  for  repairs.  It  was 
never  a  pleasant  experience." 


Photograph,  page  1 


Tulk-Hart  with  the 
Spitfire  in  1943 


Evans  offered  £lm 
to  revive  Radio  1 


By  Alexandra  Frean.  media  correspondent 


RADIO  I  has  hired  the  tele¬ 
vision  presenter  Chris  Evans 
to  host  its  breakfast  show  in 
what  is  said  to  be  the  biggest 
deal  by  a  BBC  radio  station. 

Matthew  Bannister,  the  sta¬ 
tion’s  controller,  is  under¬ 
stood  to  have  offered  Evans’s 
company  Ginger  Productions 
more  than  £1  million  to  pro¬ 
duce  the  breakfast  show  for 
eight  months  to  help  lo  boost 
the  station's  flagging  ratings. 

Radio  I  has  lost  5-5  million 
listeners  in  the  past  two  years 
and  was  bracing  itself  for 
further  falls  after  the  inunl- 
nent  departure  of  Steve 


Wright  the  disc  jockey  who 
presents  the  breakfast  show. 
Mr  Bannister,  who  gave  Ev¬ 
ans  his  first  break  on  the  local 
London  station  GLR.  said 
that  the  signing  represented  a 
“great  catch"  for  Radio  I.  It 
was  also  the  first  time  such  a 
key  part  of  a  BBC  schedule 
has  been  given  to  an  indepen¬ 
dent  production  company. 

Evans,  who  made  his  name 
presenting  Channel  4's  Big 
Breakfast  and  Don’t  Forget 
Your  Toothbrush,  will  start 
on  April  24.  Research  showed 
he  would  be  popular  with  the 
15  to  35-year-old  audience. 


Watchdog  urges  tighter 
control  of  estate  agents 

By  Lin  Jenkins 


MINIMUM  qualifications  for 
estate  agents  should  be  made 
compulsory  to  curb  malprac¬ 
tice  and  improve  public  confi¬ 
dence,  the  profession’s  om¬ 
budsman  said  yesterday. 

Complaints  rose  nearly  10 
per  cent  last  year  despite  the 
housing  market  being  in  the 
doldrums.  Peter  Quayle  said. 
The  Government  has  dis¬ 
missed  the  idea  of  professional 
qualifications  but  Mr  Quayle 
said:  “Anybody  can  set  up  as 
an  estate  agent  without  dem¬ 
onstrating  that  he  has  at  least 
a  minimum  standard  of  com¬ 


petence."  Baroness  Mallalieu, 
QC,  chairman  of  the  council  of 
the  Ombudsman  for  Corpo¬ 
rate  Estate  Agents,  said  an 
ombudsman  covering  the 
whole  industry  was  needed  to 
provide  redress  without  the 
need  for  costly  court  cases.  The 
ombudsman  currently  covers 
only  the  corporate  chains, 
making  up  about  half  of  the 
industry.  “It  may  be  only  a 
very  small  number  of  cowboys 
who  are  guilty  of  failing  to 
comply  with  any  code  of 
practice,  but  that,  and  a  lack  of 
understanding  about  die  role 


of  estate  agents,  are  reasons 
why  members  of  the  public 
still  have  mistrust  about  estate 
agents  generally,"  she  said. 

One  complaint  in  the  report 
concerned  an  attempted  rape. 
A  man  used  a  false  name  and 
address  to  obtain  an  appoint¬ 
ment  to  view  a  property  where 
the  vendor  was  a  single 
woman.  He  had  claimed  to 
have  the  particulars  of  the 
property,  despite  not  having 
visited  the  agent  “Such  sellers 
should  insist  all  male  viewers 
are  accompanied,"  Mr  Quayle 
said. 


Travellers 
face  ferry 
miseiy  in 
blockade 
at  ports 

By  Jonathan  Prynn 

TRANSPORT  CORRESPONDENT 

TENS  of  thousand  of  Travel¬ 
lers  face  severe  delays  to  their 
journeys  tomorrow  and  Fri¬ 
day  as  French  seamen  prepare 
for  a  4S-hour  blockade  of  the 
Channel  Tunnel  and  Channel 
ports  from  Brittany  to  the 
Belgian  border. 

Brian  Mawhinney.  the 
Transport  Secretary,  has  con¬ 
tacted  M  Bosson,  his  French 
counterpart,  urging  him  to 
keep  the  ports  open.  “We  will 
expert  the  French  authorities 
to  lake  appropriate  action."  a 
Transport  Department 
spokesman  said.  The  Govern¬ 
ment  deplored  the  “totally 
unjustified"  attempt  to  incon¬ 
venience  innocent  passengers, 
he  said. 

The  threatened  blockade  is 
in  protest  at  the  employment 
of  55  low-paid  Polish  seamen 
on  two  ships  run  by  Meridian 
Ferries,  a  small  cross-Channel 
freight  operator,  on  its  Folke¬ 
stone  to  Boulogne  service.  If  it 
goes  ahead  it  could  bring 
chaos  to  the  half-term  holiday 
with  hundreds  of  thousands  of 
passengers  due  to  pass 
through  the  Channel  ports. 
Bookings  this  week  have  also 
been  swelled  by  a  number  of 
special  promotions  offered  by 
the  ferry  companies. 

The  main  British  ferry  oper¬ 
ators.  P&O  European  Ferries 
and  Stena  Sealink,  are  draw¬ 
ing  up  contingency  plans  to 
reroute  their  services  to  Bel¬ 
gian  ports  if  the  blockade  goes 
ahead.  These  would  involve 
crossings  of  up  to  four  hours 
replacing  the  one  and  a  half 
hour  Dover  to  Calais  route. 
Day-trippers  will  be  advised 
to  postpone  their  journeys. 
“The  potential  for  disruption 
is  huge."  Chris  Laming,  of 
Stena  Sealink.  said. 

The  dispute  between  the 
French  maritime  unions  and 
Meridian  is  already  in  its 
fourth  week  with  mass  pickets 
of  several  hundred  French 
seamen  dally  confronting  doz¬ 
ens  of  riot  police.  Seven  sailors 
were  arrested  last  week  when 
they  tried  to  block  the  berthing 
of  Spirit  of  Boulogne ,  one  of 
the  Meridian  ships. 

Meridian  said  it  was  “as¬ 
tounded  that  a  band  of  rioters 
are  being  allowed  to  strangle 
our  activities  in  Boulogne". 


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Yacht  instructor  lost  at  sea 


By  A  Staff  Reporter 

A  FERRY  rescued  four  trainee 
yacht  crew  after  their  instruc¬ 
tor  was  swept  to  his  death  in 
the  Channel  yesterday.  P&0*s 
The  Pride  of  Bruges  was 
diverted  to  assist  the  French- 
registered  Phoenix  when  her 
crew  issued  a  mayday  signal 


after  their  Belgian  instructor 
was  lost  overboard. 

As  the  crew  of  the  ferry,  en 
route  for  Calais,  hauled  the 
trainees  on  board,  an  RAF 
helicopter  found  the  missing 
man  in  heavy  seas  and  flew 
him  to  the  Kent  and  Canter¬ 
bury  Hospital,  where  he  was 
certified  dead  on  arrival.  The 


instructor,  aged  64,  has  not 
been  named. 

A  P&O  spokesman  said  the 
ferry  found  the  yacht  five 
miles  east  of  Dover  but  heavy 
seas  prevented  lifeboats  being 
launched.  The  crew  pulled  the 
sailors  onto  the  ferry  on  rope 
ladders.  Last  night  they  were 
recovering  in  Calais. 


Lyme  Bay 
rescue 
official 
suspended 
on  full  pay 

By  Kathryn  Knight 

THE  coastguard  who  was  in 
charge  at  the  time  of  the  Lyme 
Bay  canoe  disaster  has  been 
suspended  on  full  pay,  it 
emerged  yesterday.  Donald 
McDonald,  district  controller 
of  Portland  Coastguard  when 
four  teenagers  died,  has  been 
suspended  pending  the  results 
of  an  internal  investigation. 

The  news  coincided  with  die 
publication  of  a  report  on 
outdoor  activity  centres  by  the 
House  of  Ctommons  Educa¬ 
tion  Select  Committee.  It  con¬ 
tains  evidence  from  centre 
managers,  local  education  au¬ 
thorities  and  teachers,  and 
emphasises  the  need  for  a 
statutory  accreditation  scheme 
for  Britain's  3,000  centres. 

Officials  at  Portland  Coast¬ 
guard.  which  is  responsible 
for  co-ordinating  all  maritime 
search  and  rescue  operations 
along  a  stretch  of  Dorset 
coastline,  last  night  declined  to 
say  whether  Mr  McDonald's 
suspension  was  connected 
with  the  Lyme  Bay  tragedy.  A 
spokesman  said  they  were 
conducting  an  internal  inqui¬ 
ry  and  could  make  no  further 
comment 

Mr  McDonald,  who  took 
charge  of  Portland  Coast¬ 
guard  in  1992.  joined  the 
coastguard  in  1979  after  serv¬ 
ing  in  the  Merchant  Navy  for 
eight  years.  He  confirmed  that 
he  had  been  suspended,  add¬ 
ing:  “This  action  has  been 
undertaken  by  headquarters 
subject  to  their  internal  inqui¬ 
ry.  The  outcome  will  be  made 
known  within  the  next  two  to 
three  weeks." 

David  Jamieson.  Labour 
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border  controls  launched 


By  Frances  Gibb,  legal  correspondent 


THE  Government  faces  fur¬ 
ther  pressure  over  its  inso¬ 
lence  on  maintaining  border 
controls  with  the  advent  of  a 
fresh  legal  challenge  under 
European  law. 

Lawyers  for  the  Standing 
Conference  on  Racial  Equality 
in  Europe  will  ask  the  High 
Court  to  refer  to  the  European 
Court  of  Justice  in  Luxem¬ 
bourg  die  issue  of  Britain's 
power  to  make  border  checks 
on  people  arriving  from  other 
European  Union  countries. 

The  challenge  is  the  second 


over  the  border  controls.  In 
November  1993  the  European 
Parliament  lodged  a  court 
case  against  the  European 
Commission,  charging  tbat 
the  Commission  had  failed  to 
ensure  that  member  states 
fulfil  its  duty  to  guarantee  free 
movement  of  individuals  with¬ 
in  the  Community.  If  the 
Parliament  wins  in  the  Euro¬ 
pean  Court  of  Justice,  the 
Commission  might  be  re¬ 
quired  to  demand  Britain 
remove  its  border  checks. 

On  Monday,  the  Standing 


Conference  on  Racial  Equality 
in  Europe  will  argue  that  the 
maintenance  of  passport 
checks  breaches  Britain's  obli¬ 
gations  under  the  Treaty  of 
Rome.  The  group  rejects  the 
Government’s  position  —  re¬ 
cently  reaffirmed  by  the  Prime 
Minister  —  that  a  general 
declaration  by  EU  leaders  in 
1985  allows  Britain  to  keep 
border  controls. 

The  case  is  likely  to  add  to 
the  controversy  over  the  issue 
after  the  resignation  as  trade 
minister  of  the  former  immi- 


Carriers  owe  £22m  in  charges 


AIRLINES  and  ferry  opera¬ 
tors  owe  the  Government  £22 
million  in  charges  for  passen¬ 
gers  without  proper  travel 
documents,  according  to  a 
report  published  today  (Rich¬ 
ard  Ford  writes). 

The  National  Audit  Office 
report.  Entry  into  the  United 
Kingdom ,  urges  the  immigra¬ 
tion  service  to  maintain  a 
more  rigorous  attitude  to¬ 
wards  making  firms  pay  the 
outstanding  bills,  which 


amount  to  almost  a  third  of  the 
total  charges  imposed  since 
19S7.  Airlines  and  ferry  com¬ 
panies  are  liable  to  a  £2,000 
charge  for  each  passenger 
brought  into  the  country  with¬ 
out  proper  documentation. 

In  spite  of  new  debt  recovery 
procedures  introduced  two 
years  ago.  more  than  half  the 
£12  million  in  charges  levied 
since  May  1993  are  unpaid, 
the  report  says.  It  also  says 
there  is  a  big  increase  in  the 


number  of  people  using  so¬ 
phisticated  forged  travel 
documents. 

The  report  condemns  the 
out-of-date  methods  used  to 
hold  information  about  sus¬ 
pects  from  non-European 
Union  states.  Each  immigra¬ 
tion  officer  has  an  index  of 
suspects  from  non-European 
Union  countries  but  it  is  in 
book  form,  contains  10,000 
entries  and  has  to  be  updated 
manually  every  day. 


g ration  minister  Charles 
Watdle,  who  said  that  the 
declaration  was  “not  worth  the 
paper  it  is  written  on”.  Conser¬ 
vative  Euro-sceptics  seized 
upon  this  as  a  further  example 
of  the  erosion  of  British  sover¬ 
eignty  by  Brussels. 

Supporters  of  the  European 
Migrants  Forum  have  also 
claimed  that  Britain  is  acting 
in  breach  of  European  law. 
Bemie  Grant  chairman  of  the 
Standing  Conference  on  Ra¬ 
da!  Equality  and  Labour  MP 
for  Tottenham,  said  yesterday: 
“We  agree  with  Mr  Wardle 
that  the  Government  doesn’t 
have  a  leg  to  stand  on  in  terms 
of  controls  at  British  borders. 
We  are  concerned  about  the 
whole  way  in  which  this 
matter  has  been  brought  to  the 
public’s  attention.  We  believe 
the  race  card  is  being  played 
by  Tory  politicians." 

Lawyers  for  the  Standing 
Conference  say  that  if  their 
case  is  successful,  it  will  open 
the  way  for  individuals 
stopped  at  the  border  to  claim 
compensation  from  the  Gov¬ 
ernment  The  Home  Office 
yesterday  confirmed  that  it 
would  contest  the  case. 


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Air  traffic  control 
sell-off  attacked 

By  Harvey  Elliott,  air  correspondent 

GOVERNMENT  plans  to  sell  privatisation.  The  committee 
off  air  traffic  control  were  recommended  that  if  govern- 
strongly  criticised  yesterday  ment  plans  proceed,  the  safety, 
by  an  all-party  committee  of  group's  work  should  be  trans- 
MPs.  Under  the  chairman-  ferred  to  a  separate  body.  The 
ship  of  Paul  Channon.  the  committee  also  recommended 
former  transport  secretary,  that  if  the  service  privatised, 
the  committee  urged  the  Gov-  the  Government  should  have 
emment  to  consider  "corporal-  a  “golden  share”  in  order  to 
isation”  —  a  new  way  of  “preserve  the  UK’S  national 
keeping  the  service  in  public  interest  in  the  independence  of 
control  while  enabling  it  to  air  traffic  operations”, 
make  a  profit.  The  proposal  was  dropped 

“Before  die  Government  from  tiie  Queen’s  Speech 
proceeds  with  its  plans,  we  because  officially  there  was  no 
recommend  that  it  publish  time  to  draft  the  legislation, 
detailed  arguments  as  to  why  But  there  was  also  criticism 
it  does  not  favour  the  altema-  from  airlines  and  air  traffic 
tive  put  to  us  of  converting  die  control  .unions  which  con- 
service  into  a  profit-making  vinced  proponents  .of  the 
public  sector  company.”  the  scheme  that  the  measure  may 
report  said.  It  also  criticised  not  have  succeeded  in  getting 
the  Department  of  Transport  through  the  Commons, 
for  giving  only  six  weeks  for  Joe  Magee,  general  secre- 
consuitation  on  their  original  taiy  of  the  IPMS  union,  which 
proposals  for  selling  off  the  represents  3.000  air  traffic 
National  Air  Traffic  Service.  controllers,  welcomed  the 
“Six  weeks  is  simply  not  committee’s  report  He  said- 
long  enough  to  allow  interest-  “The  case  was  thin  when  it 
ed  parties  ro  give  their  views  was  first  put  forward  Now  it 
fully.”  the  MPs  said  The  is  definitely  shown  to  be  not 
department  was  asked  to  give  proven.  It  has  destroyed  the 
more  time  in  the  future  and  Government’s  case  completely 
publish  an  account  of  the  next  and  shown  that  die  CAA’s  case 
consultation  period  for  investment  was  utterly 

The  air  traffic  service  is  part  wrong.” 
of  the  Civil  Aviation  Authority  Dr  Brian  Mawhinney,  the 

which  has  a  safety  regulation  Transport  Secretary,  denied 
group  to  oversee  air  traffic  that  the  report  was  critical  and 
control.  The  committee  said  it  said  that  it  “reflected  our 
was  “uncomfortable”  with  the  commitment  to  providing  a 
proposal  that  this  safety  group  modem  and  efficient  air  traffic 
stayed  within  the  CAA  under  control  service”. 


THE  TIMES®DEM0S 
Communitarianism 
by  Amitai  Etzioni 

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need  to  develop  in  the  late  J990s. 

In  the  last  two  years.  Professor  Etzioni’s  ideas  have  been 
taken  up  by  politicians  as  diverse  as  President  Clinton  and 
Chancellor  Kohl  Jack  Kemp  and  A1  Gore.  He  argues  that 
we  need  to  balance  rights  with  responsibilities  and  that 
instead  of  leaving  everything  to  the  state  or  the  market  we 
need  to  build  up  the  intermediate  institutions  of  the 
voluntary  sector,  schools  and  the  family. 

Tte  lecture,  chaired  by  David  Marquand,  Professor  of 
Pohura  at  Sheffield  University,  will  be  held  on  Monday 
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Cautious  Molyneaux  seeks  compromise  while  Paisley  rejects  framework  document 


Unionists  present 
their  own  plan 
for  Ulster’s  future 


By  Nicholas  Wood  and  Jill  Sherman 


THE  leader  of  the  Ulster 
Unionists  urged  London  and 
Dublin  to  "get  out  of  our  way" 
yesterday  as  he  published  his 
party's  proposals  for  a  lasting 
political  settlement  in  North¬ 
ern  Ireland. 

James  Molyneaux  dis¬ 
missed  the  joint  framework 
document  to  be  published 
today  by  the  British  and  Irish 
Governments  as  hopeless.  He 
said  that  it  should  be  shelved 
while  the  parries  to  the  conflict 
concentrated  on  a  Unionist 
plan  to  build  confidence  and 
trust  in  Ulster  through  the 
establishment  of  a  devolved 
assembly. 

However,  he  made  clear 
that  he  would  not  boycott  the 
bilateral  talks  that  the  Gov¬ 
ernment  intends  to  hold  on  the 
basis  of  the  framework  docu¬ 
ment.  He  said  that  as  long  as 
his  party's  proposals  were  also 
on  the  table,  he  would  be 
prepared  to  discuss  the  way 
ahead  with  ministers.  “We 
would  not  walk  out  of  the 
room  simply  because  it  [the 
framework  document]  hap¬ 
pens  to  be  sitting  on  a  side 
table.”  he  said  in  a  BBC  radio 
interview. 

In  contrast  to  Mr 
Molyneaux's  more  cautious 
approach.  Ian  Paisley,  leader 
of  the  Democratic  Unionist 
Party,  rejected  the  framework 
document  declaring  that  his 
party  would  not  take  part  in 
the  peace  process  while  it 
remained  under  discussion. 
This  document  is  a  declara¬ 
tion  of  war  on  the  Union,  and 
on  the  Unionist  people."  he 
said 

Mr  Molyneaux's  aim  is  to 
avoid  the  blame  for  any  eveiv- 
tual  breakdown  in  John  Ma¬ 
jor's  high-risk  search  for 
peace.  His  party's  5-page 
document.  A  Practical  Ap¬ 
proach  to  Problem-Sohing  in 
Northern  Ireland,  essentially 
proposes  an  internal  settle¬ 
ment  in  Ulster,  variations  of 
which  have  been  put  forward 
by  Unionists  for  the  past  20 
years.  It  says  that  lack  of 
“trust"  among  the  political 
elements  in  Ireland  is  the ' 


ULSTER  UNIONIST 
PROPOSALS 


D  Publication  by  the  two 
governments  of  a  new  docu¬ 
ment  (framework  1)  identify¬ 
ing  problems,  grouping 
them  for  resolution,  ana 
setting  out  formulas  for 
dealing  with  each  group 

□  She  months  of  intensive 
talks  Involving  all  parties 
and  both  governments  lead¬ 
ing  to  a  second  document 
(framework  2)  detailing  ar-* 
eas  of  agreement 

□  Early  elections  to  an  "in¬ 
terim  assembly”  in  Ulster 
charged  with  implementing 
agreements  reached.  Res¬ 
ponsibility  to  be  shared  with 
positions  of  power  allocated 
according  to  the  number  of 
seats  won  by  each  party. 
Questions  about  relations 
between  London  and  Dublin 
and  Belfast  and  Dublin 
(strands  2  and  3  of  the  joint 
framework  document) 
would  be  dealt  with  once  the 
assembly  was  in  place 

□  A  referendum  after  a  two- 
year  transition  phase  with 
the  people  of  Northern  Ire¬ 
land  giving  their  verdict  on 
the  progress  made 


main  problem  and  that 
confidence-building  measures 
are  needed  to  put  that  right 
Drawing  on  extensive  leaks 
of  the  framework  document 
the  Unionists  say  it  fails  to 
reflect  the  difference  between 
cross-border  bodies  agreed 
between  Ulster  and  the  Re¬ 
public  and  “all-Ireland  institu¬ 
tions  with  executive  powers, 
agreed  by  the  two  Govern¬ 
ments  and  imposed  by  diktat". 
It  adds:  “If  the  framework  doc¬ 
ument  is  not  to  become  a 
major  part  of  the  problem, 
instead  -of  a  basis  for  a 
solution,  the  two  Govern¬ 
ments  must  pull  back  from 
their  stubborn  insistence  on 
the  imposition  of  structures 
over  the  heads  of  Northern 
Ireland’s  elected  represent¬ 
atives." 

The  paper  also  reflects 
Unionist  anger  at  the  way  they 


have  apparently  been  outma¬ 
noeuvred  by  Mr  Major  and 
Gerry'  Adams,  the  Sinn  Fein 
president  to  the  point  that 
they  cannot  boycott  talks  with¬ 
out  risk  of  being  blamed  for 
precipitating  a  resumption  of 
violence.  It  accuses  the  Gov¬ 
ernment  of  being  “prepared  to 
threaten  Ulster  Unionists  with 
the  terrorists'  guns". 

Mr  Paisley,  who  held  a 
press  conference  after  an  80- 
minute  meeting  with  the 
Prime  Minister  yesterday, 
claimed  that  the  framework 
document  was  a  sell-out  to  the 
nationalists  and  accused  Mr 
Major  of  “bartering  the  birth¬ 
right  of  Ulster  as  part  of  the 
United  Kingdom”. 

Publishing  his  party’s  sub¬ 
mission  to  the  Prime  Minister 
and  a  separate  “formula  for 
political  progress",  Mr  Paisley 
said  he  would  talk  with  minis¬ 
ters  on  these  papers  but  not  on 
the  basis  of  the  framework 
document  The  Democratic 
Unionists  now  hope  to  per¬ 
suade  the  Ulster  Unionists  to 
join  them  in  boycotting  the 
peace  talks. 

Mr  Paisley  said  that  the 
Government's  document  was 
not  the  consultative  or  discus¬ 
sion  paper  that  Mr  Major  bad 
promised.  “There  is  only  one 
line  and  one  proposition  in  the 
document  and  that  is  the 
Dublin  line  and  the  Republi¬ 
can  agenda.  It  points  the 
people  of  Northern  Ireland 
down  one  road  only." 

He  said  that  it  was  an 
intricate  contrivance  to  be  able 
to  say  that  Northern  Ireland 
remained  in  the  UK.  while 
preparing  for  a  takeover  by 
Dublin.  “It’s  quite  clear  that 
this  is  an  effort  to  buy  off  the 
IRA.  There  is  ’nothing  to 
strengthen  the  Union." 

Mr  Paisley  also  said  that  the 
Government  would  try  to 
“blackmail"  the  unionists  by 
telling  them  that  violence 
could  return  if  they  failed  to 
support  the  document 

Simon  Jenkins,  page  IS 

Leading  article,  page  19 
Photograph,  page  24 


48  hours  of  hectic  activity 
in  quest  for  lasting  peace 

By  Nicholas  Wood,  chief  political  correspondent 


THE  Whitehall  machine  went 
into  overdrive  yesterday  as 
John  Major  and  his  most 
senior  ministers  and  officials 
prepared  for  today’s  publica¬ 
tion  of  the  framework  docu¬ 
ment.  Ulster’s  political  leaders 
also  began  a  hectic  48  hours, 
the  outcome  of  which  is  critical 
to  their  hopes  and  fears. 

James  Molyneaux,  leader  of 
tiie  Ulster  Unionists,  is  fearful 
that  his  relatively  moderate 
approach  to  the  Prime  Minis¬ 
ter’s  initiative  could  play  into 
the  hands  of  lan  Paisley, 
leader  of  the  Democratic 
Unionists,  who  yesterday  re¬ 
jected  any  talks  on  the  docu¬ 
ment  Mr  Molyneaux  is 
playing  for  high  stakes.  Many 
MPs  believe  that  he  could  be 


ousted  if  his  strategy-  fails  to 
pay  dividends  for  hfs  party. 

This  is  the  timetable: 
YESTERDAY: 

1020am  London  and  Belfast 

The  Ulster  Unionists  publish 
their  proposals  for  a  political 
settlement 

[030am.  London:  Cabinet 
meets  to  approve  framework 
document  and  separate  paper 
on  proposed  assembly 
326pm.  House  of  Commons: 
Mr  Major  urges  the  politi¬ 
cians  and  people  of  Ulster  not 
to  let  the  chance  of  a  perma¬ 
nent  peace  “slip  away" 
350pm,  the  Commons:  Mr 
Major  meets  Mr  Paisley  in  his 
office  for  80  minutes 
5.15pm.  -  the  Commons:  Mr 
Paisley  condemns  framework 


The  Boots  Magazine  95p 


Available  from  all  large  Boots  stores  and  selected  small  Boots  stores. 
Subject  to  availability. 


Someone  Cares 


Combined  effort 
driven  by  hope 
and  ambition 

By  Nicholas  Watt.  Ireland  correspondent 


THE  Anglo-Irish  framework 
document  is  the  most  ambi¬ 
tious  plan  for  Northern  Ire¬ 
land  since  the  Hillsborough 
Agreement  of  1985.  which  gave 
Dublin  a  consultative  role  in 
the  Province. 

British  and  Irish  officials 
have  spent  nearly  two  years  in 
intense  negotiations  drawing 
up  tiie  23-page  document 
Dublin  hopes  to  placate  the 
Unionists  by  pledging  in  the 
document  to  amend  Articles  2 
and  3  of  its  constitution,  which 
lay  claim  to  the  territory  of 
Northern  Ireland. 

Britain,  in  turn,  will  appeal 
to  the  nationalists  by  agreeing 
to  insen  the  principle  of  con¬ 
sent  into  the  1920  Government 
of  Ireland  Act  which  stated 
that  Parliament  had  “supreme 
authority"  over  the  Province. 
The  document  will  also  pro¬ 
pose  joint  North-South  bodies, 
with  executive  powers  over 
areas  such  as  tourism  and 
agriculture,  presided  over  by 
members  from  a  new  North¬ 
ern  Ireland  assembly  and  the 
Irish  Parliament. 

The  Joint  Liaison  Group  of 
British  and  frish  officials 
started  work  on  the  document 
in  mid-1993  after  the  collapse 
of  the  Brooke-Mayhew  inter- 
party  talks  at  the  end  of  199Z. 
The  principles  that  underpin 
the  document  were  outlined  in 
December  1993  in  the 
Downing  Street  declaration 
issual  by  John  Major  and 
Albert  Reynolds,  then  the  Irish 
Prime  Minister.  The  two  lead¬ 
ers  agreed  to  uphold  the  will  of 
the  majority  of  the  people  in 
Northern  Ireland  while  recog¬ 
nising  an  all-Ireland  element 
by  establishing  "arrange¬ 
ments  within  Northern  Ire¬ 
land,  for  the  whole  island,  and 
between  these  islands”.  The 
framework  document,  which 
can  be  accepted,  amended  or 
rejected  by  the  political  parties 


and  the  people  of  the  Province, 
in  effect  proposes  legislative 
substance  for  the  declaration 
of  1993. 

Britain’s  negotiating  team 
has  been  led  by  Quentin 
Thomas,  the  deputy  secretary 
at  the  Northern  Ireland  Office, 
who  also  leads  the  Govern¬ 
ment's  delegation  in  its  explor¬ 
atory  talks  with  Sinn  Fein.  The 
Irish  side,  which  is  led  by  Sean 
O  hUiginn,  second  secretary 
in  the  Anglo-Irish  section  of 
the  Department  of  Foreign 
Affairs,  is  more  political.  It 
includes  Sean  Donlon  and 
Fergus  Finlay,  key  advisers 
respectively  to  John  Bruton, 
the  Prime  Minister,  and  Dick 
Spring,  his  deputy. 

Yesterday  Paul  Bew,  profes¬ 
sor  of  Irish  politics  at  Queen's 
University,  Belfast  described 
the  North-South  bodies  as  the 
most  radical  Irish  dimension 
ever  to  be  proposed.  Despite 
the  assurances  of  Sir  Patrick 
Mayhew.  the  Northern  Ire¬ 
land  Secretary,  that  the  docu¬ 
ment  will  be  subject  to  a 
“  triple-Jock  "  of  “parties,  people 
and  Parliament”,  Unionists 
regard  the  proposals  as  a  sop 
to  the  IRA  to  prevent  them 
from  returning  to  violence. 

Sinn  Fein,  which  will  con¬ 
sider  the  document  at  length 
before  giving  its  response,  will 
be  concerned  that  Dublin  has 
agreed  to  amend  its  constitu¬ 
tional  claim  to  Northern  Ire¬ 
land.  The  party  rejected  the 
Anglo-Irish  Agreement  of  1985 
because  it  “copper-fastened 
partition",  and  Gerry  Adams, 
the  Sinn  Fein  president,  may 
reach  a  similar  conclusion. 
However,  some  commentators 
in  Belfast  believe  that  the  all- 
Ireland  elements  in  the  docu¬ 
ment  may  allow  Mr  Adams  to 
tell  his  supporters  that  the 
plans  represent  an  important 
step  towards  Britain's  disen¬ 
gagement  from  the  Province. 


IN  PARLIAMENT 


YESTEHDAY:  In  the  Commons,  ques¬ 
tions  to  education  ministers  and  the 
Prime  M Water  ware  Mowed  by  a 
debate  on  the  Health  Authorities  Big, 
remaining  stages.  The  Lords  defaced 
the  committee  stage  at  the  Pensions 
B3  and  the  CM  Evidence  (Fantfty 
Mediation)  (Scotland)  Ml. 

TODAY:  In  the  Commons,  MPs  sit  at 
toam  tor  baefcbeneft  debates,  the  disc 
of  which  win  be  on  the  export  of  live 


animate.  At  230pm  there  will  be 
questions  to  Scottish  minlslere.  David 
Hoathcoal-Amory,  the  Paymaster 
General,  wffl  open  a  debate  on  VAT 
orders,  which  wfl  be  foHowed  by 
debates  on  the  Avon  fSisuetural 
Change)  Order.  Education  (Mandatory 
Awards)  Regulations  and  Education 
Student  Loans)  Regulations.  The 
Lords  wffl  debate  the  second  reading 
of  the  Blasphemy  (Abolition)  on. 


Major  can  expert: 
to  gain,  but  not 
at  the  ballot  box 


.* 


document  as  sell-out  to  IRA 
Evening:  Mr  Major  flies  to 
Ulster  for  dinner  with  John 
Bruton,  and  overnight  stay. 
TODAY: 

Sam;  House  of  Commons: 
advance  copies  of  the  two 
documents  released 
9.45am.  Balmoral  Confer¬ 
ence  Centre.  Belfast:  Mr  Ma¬ 
jor  and  Mr  Bruton  launch 
framework  document 
Late  morning.  Balmoral 
Conference  Centre:  Mr  Ma¬ 
jor  and  Sir  Patrick  Mayhew 
launch  paper  on  Northern 
Ireland  assembly 
Lunchtime,  Belfast:  Mr  Ma¬ 
jor  flies  bade  to  London 
330pm.  the  Commons:  Mr 
Major  makes  Commons  state¬ 
ment  on  joint  proposals. 


John  Major  may  receive 
more  praise  from  histori¬ 
ans  than  thanks  fro™ 
voters  for  his  handling  ol 
Northern  Ireland-  It  is  one  ol 
those  issues  which  is  oF  enor¬ 
mous  political  importance  but 
of  little  immediate  significance 
to  most  people.  Those  who 
care,  care  passionately,  but 
they  are  a  minority  among 
voters,  and  MPS. 

Northern  Ireland  is,  on  a 
much  larger  scale,  like  Rhode¬ 
sia  was  from  1965  to  1979.  or 
the  Falklands  was  in  early 
1980s  and  Hong  Kong  will  be 
until  1997.  These  problems 
involved  incompatible  posi¬ 
tions.  stubborn  participants, 
interminable  negotiations  and 
false  starts.  They  absorbed 
much  rime,  bur  produced  few 
political  benefits. 

Even  after  Harold  Wilson’s 
abortive  attempts  to  reach 
agreement  with  lan  Smith  in 
the  Tiger  and  Fearless  talks  of 
1966  and  1968,  there  were 
repeated,  though  less  high 
profile,  initiatives  during  the 
1970s  before  the  breakthrough 
in  1979.  While  the  issue  caused 
bitter  divisions  in  the  Toiy 
party  over  the  period,  the 
eventual  solution  was  an 
anti-climax,  and  was  barely 
mentioned  during  the  1983 
election. 

The  successful  recapture 
of  the  Falklands  in  June  1982 
did,  of  course,  boost  Baroness 
Thatcher's  standing,  though 
she  would  probably  have  won 
in  1983  anyway  in  view  of 
the  Labour  Party’s  dire  state. 
But  the  war  was  only  neces¬ 
sary  because  diplomacy  had 
failed  and  tire  Foreign  Office 
had  been  unwilling  to  raise  the 
issue  after  Nicholas  Ridley  ran 
into  opposition  from  a  vocal 
minority  in  the  Commons 
after  talks  with  Argentina  in 
1980.  The  Falklands 
did  not  matter  enough  for 
Lord  Carrington  to  believe 
that  it  was  worth  risking  a  big 
row. 

Hong  Kong  similarly  inter¬ 
ests  only  a  small  group  of  MPs 
and  the  tortuous  negotiations 
with  China  over  its  post-1997 
future  did  little  for  the  stand¬ 
ing  of  Lady  Thatcher  and  Lead 
Howe.  The  only  time  Hong 
Kong  has  hit  the  headlines  in 
Britain  was  four  years  ago  in 
the  debate  about  which,  or. 
rather  how  mamy,  of '  its 
residents  should  have  the  right 
to  enter  Britain.  Now,  while 
there  is  widespread  sympathy 
for  Chris  Patten’s  efforts  as 
Governor,  most  MPS  take  a 
fatalistic  attitude.  They  believe 
thar  the  initiative  has  already 
passed  to  China  more  than 
two  years  ahead  of  the  formal 
handover. 

These  can  all  be  regarded  as 
residual  colonial,  even  imper¬ 
ial,  problems,  while  Northern 
Ireland  is  different  It  is  an 
integral  part  of  the  United 


Kingdom,  rather  than  a  re- , 
mote  colony  of  which  we  know  -y 
little  That  is  true  in  ihe  sense- .. 
that  no  British  Gomnat-.-.*.  - 
could  agree  to  a  change  in  the*  - 

running  of  the  Province  wrtfc 
out  the  consent  of  a  minority  of  — 
its  people,  the  tnpteta*  . . 
which  Sir  Patrick  Mayhew  - 

has  repeatedly  promised, 

The  Unionists  argue  that 
Northern  Ireland  must  re  ;; 
main  part  of  the  UK,  ya  by 
their  behaviour  theyenssns  ~r 
that  it  is  treated  dmeraidy  ' 
from  Scotland,  Wales  orany.  . 
English  region.  For  them,  the  • 
interests  of  Northern  Ireland  * 
come  first,  determining  ffiefr 
attitude  to  other  parties  in  tte- 
Commons.  .  - 

Most  people  on  the  main- 
land  also  view  Northern, Ire? .  m 
land  differently.  That  does  not 
mean  they  want  to  abandon-  :.V. 
the  Unionists  or  be  seen  to  give  .  . 
Gerry  Adams  and  the  IRA  a 
victory.  Rather,  they  back . 


Lloyd  George  out  of 
office  after  Irish  deal 


xything  which  could  bring 
ace.  while  not  being  inlerest- 


anj 
peace, 

ed  in  the  details.  Mr  Major 
has  widespread  support  for 
his  initiative  to  whidi  he  has 
applied  his  skills  as  a  personal 
negotiator. 

Mr  Major’s  commitment 
was  underlined  by  his  elo¬ 
quent  appeal  in  the  Commons  v 

yesterday  for  the  continued  * 

involvement  of  .  all  parties  in 
the  Search  for  a.. permanent 
peace.  That  may  have  helped 
his" public  standing  as  a'lead-' 
er.  But  few  British  politicians 
have  ever  gained  from  their 
involvement  in  Irish;  affairs. 
Lloyd  George  was  outef 
Downing  Street  the  year  aftes ■ 
he  negotiated  the  deal  whjdi  - 
led  to  the  partition  of  Ireland; 
while  his  successors  have  lost 
little  from  neglecting  the  issue.;  .  ■' 
Mr  Major’s  attempt  tobreak-- 
the  stalemate  is  right  and  bold, 
but  may  produce  few  political .  . 
or  electoral  dividends.  ‘  . 

Peter  Riddell  - 


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^1— LIMES  WEDNESDAY  FEBRUARY 


OVERSEAS  NEWS  11 


Afghans  try 
to  rebuild 
lives  from 
the  rubble 


From  Christopher  Thomas  in  Kabul 


the  Old  City  of  Kabul  is 
pile  of  bncks  ft  .spreads  a  era 
the  shadow  of  Bala  Hisar  for 
where  the  British  suffere 
nornbly  in  their  two  fade 
Afghan  adventures  in  the  la: 
century.  Here,  more  than  an’ 
where  in  this  broken  capita 
the  miracle  of  peace  is  felt.  Th 
Government  and  assone 


Peace  hope 

Islamabad:  Mahmoud  Mes- 
liri.  (he  United  Nations  envoy 
to  Afghanistan,  returned  to 
Pakistan  yesterday  promis¬ 
ing  not  to  give  up  after  his 
plan  for  a  transfer  of  power 
in  Kabul  from  President 
Rabbani  foundered.  Mr 
Mestiri  said  he  would  go 
back  to  Kabul  today  to  an¬ 
nounce  the  next  phase  of  his 
peace  process. 


warlords  pulverised  it  for 
three  years,  raining  rockets 
and  shells  on  simple,  illiterate 
people  for  a  few  miles  of 
territory.  The  guns  fell  silent  a 
week  ago  and  this  comer  of 
Kabul  is  seeing  a  rare  sight: 
people.  They  are  coming  back 
gingerly  to  inspect  plots  of 
land  that  used  to  be  occupied 


by  grand  houses,  little  shops 
and  mud  homes.  Not  one 
building  is  intact.  The  rats  and 
dogs  had  them  to  themselves 
until  a  few  days  ago  when 
some  of  the  old  inhabitants 
returned  and  cleared  a  space 
in  the  rubble  for  a  bed  and  a 
blanket.  They  began  rebuild¬ 
ing  with  bare  hands  and 
scraps,  planning  for  a  better 
future  on  their  personal  patch 
of  earth.  It  is  a  cruel  delusion. 

The  worst  battering  inflicted 
on  the  Old  City  came  from 
government  forces  about  a 
year  ago  when  they  let  loose 
missiles,  bombs  and  shells 
that  achieved  their  military 
objective:  Gulbuddin  Hek- 
matyar.  the  Pashtun  fanatic 
who  was  fighting  to  overthrow 
the  Government,  took  flight 
from  the  blitzkrieg. 

The  Government  thus  won 
a  pyrrhic  victory,  destroying 
the  most  beautiful  part  of  the 
city  and  merely  driving  Mr 
Hekmatyar  a  few  miles  down 
the  road.  It  was  hardly  worth 
while  occupying  what  was  left: 
the  survivors  moved  away, 
and  the  Old  City  died. 

In  the  past  few  days.  Care, 
the  international  aid  agency, 
has  been  distributing  blan¬ 
kets.  matting  and  plastic 
sheeting,  the  bare  ingredients 
of  survival  in  the  bitingly  cold 


A  commander  of  the  Taleban  student  army  with  his  unit’s  BM 12  107mm  multi-barrel  rocket  launcher  at  Charasyab.  15  miles  from  Kabul 


nights,  to  those  who  are  re¬ 
turning.  Big  crowds,  fighting 
and  shouting  in  their  anguish 
for  help,  are  held  back  from 
distribution  lorries  by  fierce- 
looking  government  gunmen, 
who  plunge  the  butts  of  their 
rifles  into  the  groins  of  those  at 
the  front. 

People  receive  their  gifts 
emotionally:  the  widows, 
veiled  head  to  toe.  seem  over¬ 
whelmed  behind  their  masks. 
They  scream  above  the  hub¬ 


bub,  a  desperate  wail,  in  case 
they  are  left  out  Many  are 
veiled  in  pale  blue,  the  only 
vanity  permitted  to  traditional 
women  in  this  otherwise  utter¬ 
ly  brown  desen  town. 

Stephen  Masty.  emergency 
co-ordinator  for  Care,  escorted 
a  frail  old  man  through  the 
m£lee  for  his  mat  and  blanket 
Half  the  man's  family  have 
died  in  the  war;  he  lives  alone 
inside  the  twisted  walls  of  his 
former  home.  “1  was  bom 


here."  he  said.  “My  children 
were  bom  here."  They  are  in  a 
refugee  camp  in  the  eastern 
city  of  Jalalabad,  with  300,000 
other  former  Kabul  residents 
driven  out  by  the  slaughter. 

The  widows  are  the  most 
tragic.  They  have  no  means  of 
livelihood;  they  are  unmar- 
riageable  and  a  burden  to 
extended  families  who,  as 
good  Muslims,  must  take 
them  in.  Any  house  in  Kabul 
that  is  intact  is  packed  like  a 


rush-hour  train.  Ghulam 
Haider.  21.  who  is  using 
scraps  of  material  to  build  a 
shelter  where  the  family  home 
used  to  stand,  said  he  lived  in 
another  part  of  the  city  with  17 
family  members  in  two  rooms. 

There  is  a  wasted  optimism 
in  all  of  this.  People  think  the 
war  is  over  because  Mr  Hek¬ 
matyar  has  been  defeated  and 
because  Taleban,  the  powerful 
new  Koranic  students'  army, 
is  not  in  the  business  of  mass 


killings  in  the  Hekmatyar 
style.  However,  a  lasting 
peace  is  far  away. 

Taleban  may  be  less  mania¬ 
cal  than  the  rest,  but  it  has 
hanged  leaders  of  various 
renegade  militias  on  its  march 
through  the  country  and  it  will 
be  hard  put  to  convince  the 
bloodthirsty  mountain  men. 
who  are  joining  its  ranks,  of  its 
puritanical  Islamic  ideologies. 


Leading  article,  page  19 


Britain  signs  1981  UN  landmines  code 


Buthelezi  leads  MPs’  walkout 


Stones 
roll  up 
for  tour 


Johannesburg:  The  Rolling 
Stones  arrived  yesterday  far 
their  first  South  African  tour, 
which  caused  controversy 
when  Winnie  Mandela,  the 
estranged  wife  of  the  President 
and  a  deputy  minister,  sug¬ 
gested  the  band  was  racist  for 
appointing  a  white  promoter 
(Inigo  Gilmore  writes).  Hotels 
are  fully  booked,  with  fans 
arriving  from  around  the 
country  and  Botswana.  Zim¬ 
babwe  and  Namibia  for  the 
first  concert  on  Friday. 

Protest  banned 

Cherbourg:  A  French  court 
has  barred  Greenpeace  pro¬ 
testers  from  blocking  a  British 
ship  taking  nuclear  waste 
from  France  to  Japan.  The 
group  says  that  it  will  shadow 
the  vessel.  (Reuter) 

Leader  chosen 

Niamey:  President  Ousmane 
of  Niger  has  capitulated  in  a 
battle  with  his  opponents  by 
appointing  Amadou  Hama  as 
Prime  Minister  after  parlia¬ 
ment  voted  against  his  own 
nominee.  (Reuter) 

Nepal  tragedy 

Kathmandu;  The  worst  acci¬ 
dent  in  Nepal’s  mountaineer¬ 
ing  history  last  November,  in 
which  II  people  died,  occurred 
because  the  climbers  were  all 
roped  together,  an  indepen¬ 
dent  inquiry  found.  (AFP) 

Baby  boon 

Rome: Towns  and  dries  in  Ita¬ 
ly  are  offering  cash  and  tax  re¬ 
bates  for  couples  to  have 
children  in  an  attempt  to  re¬ 
verse  a  declining  birth  rate, 
which  is  among  the  lowest  in 
the  world.  (Reuter) 


By  Eve-Ann  Prentice 

Dl  PLO  MAFIC  CO  RUES  PON  DENT 

BRITAIN  has  finally  ratified  a  1981 
United  Nations  convention  restricting 
the  use  of  landmines,  which  have  killed 
or  maimed  hundreds  of  thousands  of 
people  across  the  world. 

Critics  say  Britain  should  ban  the 
manufacture  and  export  of  all  mines,  and 
add  that  London  has  ratified  the  UN 
Inhumane  Weapons  Convention  only 
because  this  qualifies  it  to  take  part  in  a 
r  review  of  the  convention  In  Vienna  in 
®  September. 

The  convention  sets  out  a  code  for  the 
use  of  landmines,  declaring  that  they 
should  not  be  used  against  civilians  or 


indiscriminately  and  that  minefields 
should  be  mapped  and  warning  signs 
posted.  The  UN  and  the  International 
Committee  of  the  Red  Cross  estimate  that 
there  are  more  than  100  million 
landmines  in  62  countries. 

It  is  thought  that  one  person  is  killed  or 
maimed  by  a  mine  eveiy  few  minutes 
somewhere  in  the  world. 

“In  winter,  the  largest  group  of 
casualties  are  women  with  babies  on 
their  backs,  out  foraging  for  firewood" 
said  Tony  Cunningham,  the  Labour 
MEP  for  Cumbria  and  Lancashire  North 
who  is  hearing  evidence  for  a  European 
Parliament  report  on  landmines  to  be 
submitted  to  the  European  Commission 
and  the  Council  of  Ministers  before  the 


September  review  of  the  LIN  convention. 
Britain  last  year  introduced  an  indefinite 
moratorium  on  the  export  of  landmines 
not  fitted  with  a  self-destruct  or  self- 
neutralising  mechanism,  but  says  it  does 
not  want  to  see  a  blanket  ban. 

Tim  Carstairs,  of  The  UK  Working 
Group  on  Landmines,  said-  “Should  hi- 
tech  mines  be  favoured  poorer  states  will 
continue  to  want  to  procure  conventional 
anti-personnel  mines,  therefore  leaving 
the  market  Open.” 

Tun  Channareth,  who  lost  his  legs 
when  he  stepped  on  a  mine  in  Cambodia 
and  is  one  of  36,000  victims  of  the 
weapons  in  his  country,  is  to  address  a 
meeting  at  the  House  of  Commons  next 
week  to  help  lobby  for  a  total  ban. 


From  Michael  Hamlyn 

IN  CAPETOWN 

THE  Home  Minister  in  Presi¬ 
dent  Mandela’s  Government 
of  National  Unity,  Chief 
Mangosuthu  Buthelezi,  yes¬ 
terday  led  a  parliamentary 
walkout  by  Inkatha  Freedom 
P&rty  MPs. 

The  Zulu  leader,  protesting 
at  the  failure  of  the  African 
National  Congress  and  the 
National  Party  to  agree  to 
international  mediation  on 
constitutional  and  political  dif¬ 
ferences.  said  there  had  been  a 
breach  of  faith  and  a  betrayal 


of  electoral  promises.  Chief 
Buthelezi  vowed  that  he  would 
keep  his  MPS  absent  until  a 
meeting  in  Ulundi  on  March  4 
and  5.  However,  Inkatha  Cab¬ 
inet  members  and  representa¬ 
tives  of  provincial  legislatures 
would  remain  in  parliament. 

Earlier,  Chief  Buthelezi  an¬ 
nounced  a  tough  new  ap¬ 
proach  on  illegal  aliens  who 
are  taking  jobs  from  South 
Africans.  “Immigrants  can  no 
longer  be  admitted  to  the 
country  in  large  numbers,"  he 
said.  Legislation  was  being 
prepared  which  would  make  it 
impossible  for  foreigners  to 


change  the  purpose  of  their 
visiL  The  new  Bill  would  also 
crack  down  on  the  increasing 
number  of  marriages  of  conve¬ 
nience.  A  passport  and  forge- 
proof  identity  card  are  in  the 
pipeline. 

South  Africa’s  economic  re¬ 
surgence  is  attracting  immi¬ 
grants.  Chris  Stals,  the 
governor  of  the  Reserve  Bank, 
said  that  growth  over  the  past 
few  months  had  made  the  two 
exchange  rates  for  the  rand  — 
to  deter  capital  outflows  — 
superfluous.  He  raised  the 
bank  rate  one  percentage 
point  to  14  per  cent  yesterday. 


Seoul  sacking 

Seoul:  President  Kim  Young 
Sam  of  South  Korea  sacked 
Kim  Deok,  the  Deputy  Prime 
Minister,  over  his  possible  in¬ 
volvement  in  a  secret  opinion 
poll  on  postponing  crucial 
local  elections  in  June.  (AFP) 

China  stumped 

Hong  Kong:  Scientists  are  in¬ 
vestigating  a  mysterious  fly¬ 
ing  object  in  southwestern 
China,  which  witnesses  said 
chopped  in  half  nearly  two 
miles  of  forest  trees,  the  Ex¬ 
press  Doily  reported.  (AFP) 


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WEDNESDAY  FEBRUARY  22 1995 


Peres  pleads  for 
peace  as  divided 
PLO  leaders  meet 

From  Christopher  Walker  in  Jerusalem 


SHIMON  PERES,  the  Israeli 
Foreign  Minister,  issued  a 
dramatic  appeal  for  the  Pales¬ 
tine  Liberation  Organisation 
not  to  suspend  the  troubled 
Middle  East  peace  talks  hours 
before  its  ruling  executive 
committee  opened  an  emer¬ 
gency  session  in  Cairo  last 
night. 

Suspension  was  reported  to 
be  one  suggestion  among  25 
motions  before  the  meeting, 
which  was  brought  forward 
from  its  original  March  date 
after  last  weekend's  failure  of 
a  meeting  In  Paris  between  Mr 
Peres  and  Yassir  Arafat,  the 
PLQ  chairman.  The  encounter 
had  tried  to  resolve  the  dead¬ 
lock  preventing  implementa¬ 
tion  of  the  second  stage  of  the 
treaty  signed  in  Washington 
in  September  1993. 

As  delegates  of  the  divided 
committee  gathered  in  the 
Egyptian  capital  amid  grow¬ 
ing  criticism  of  the  peace  deal 
among  Palestinians  and  new 
death  threats  by  radical  Pales¬ 
tinians  against  Mr  Arafat  Mr 
Peres  urged  the  committee  to 
bolster  the  peace  negotiations 
rather  than  halt  them  as  a 
number  of  leading  PLO  fig¬ 
ures  have  demanded. 

“There  is  no  turning  back 
from  the  peace  process,  nei¬ 
ther  for  the  Palestinians,  nor 
for  us.  And  if  we  encounter 
hardships,  the  solution  is  not 
to  suspend  the  talks,  but  to 
bolster  them,"  the  Israeli  min¬ 


ister  and  joint  Nobel  Peace 
Prizewinner  said. 

Even  before  the  two-day 
meeting  began,  controversy 
surrounding  it  had  illustrated 
the  disarray  inside  the  PLO. 
The  organisation  is  deeply 
split  between  leading  Pales- 
tinains  who  have  remained  in 
the  headquarters  in  Tunisia 
and  those  who  have  followed 
Mr  Arafat  to  the  overcrowded 
Gaza  Strip.  Four  of  the  origi¬ 
nal  IS  members  have  resigned 
in  protest  at  the  peace  deal  and 
a  number  of  others  were 
expected  to  boycott  the 
meeting. 

According  to  Arab  observ¬ 
ers  in  Tunis,  which  is  still 
technically  the  PLO's  main 
base,  the  movement  which  for 
years  was  largely  united  in  the 
battle  against  Israel  is  now 
cracking. 

When  Mr  Arafat  flew  into 
Tunis  on  Monday  night  en 
route  to  the  meeting,  no  senior 
PLO  leaders  met  him  at  the 
airport  PLO  officials  in  Tunis 
said  that  Farouk  Kaddoumi. 
the  PLO’s  "Fbreign  Minister", 
and  Abu  Mazen.  who  signed 
the  1993  deal  on  behalf  of  the 
PLO.  would  boycott  the  Cairo 
meeting.  The  officials  claimed 
that  Mr  Kaddoumi  was  wor¬ 
ried  because  the  main  Pales¬ 
tinian  concerns  —  the  spread 
of  autonomy  to  the  whole  of 
the  West  Bank,  the  refugee 
question,  the  question  of  con¬ 
tinuing  Jewish  settlements 


and  the  status  of  Arab  east 
Jerusalem  —  had  not  been 

solved. 

Hie  PLO'S  Tunis  bloc  is 
frustrated  because  it  has  no 
control  over  the  Arafat-led 
Palestinian  Authority  in  Gaza 
and  Jericho.  “Since  Arafat 
returned  to  Gaza  Past  sum¬ 
mer  J,  he  is  the  only  decision¬ 
making  body  in  a  peace 
process  that  is  turning  into  an 
Israeli  public  relations  game." 
a  Tunis-based  former  close 
aide  to  Mr  Arafat  complained. 

Palestinians  have  been  an¬ 
gered  by  a  seven-month  delay 
in  expanding  self-rule  beyond 
Gaza  and  the  tiny  West  Bank 
enclave  of  Jericha  and  by 
Israeli  demands  that  Palestin¬ 
ian  police  should  tighten  their 
recent  limited  dampdown  on 
Islamic  militants  living  under 
PLO  rule  who  remain  deter¬ 
mined  to  sabotage  peace. 

Nabil  Shaath,  one  of  the 
chairman's  closest  advisers, 
denied  that  Mr  Arafat  was 
under  pressure  from  his  inner 
circle,  or  that  his  popularity 
was  diminishing.  "On  the 
contrary,  it  is  rising  because 
he  is  seen  as  not  giving  in  to 
Israeli  pressure,’'  said  the  PLO 
negotiator.  But  he  acknowl¬ 
edged  that  among  die  topics  to 
be  discussed  in  Cairo  were 
emergency  plans  in  case  the 
talks  with  Israel  collapsed. 
Last  night,  it  appeared  that  at 
least  nine  committee  members 
would  attend  the  meeting. 


Arab- Jew 
partners 
in  crime 
‘net  $lbn’ 

from  Christopher  Walker 

IN  JERUSALEM 

FOR  the  past  seven  years, 
even  during  sane  of  the  worst 
Isradi-Palestinian  violence  of 
the  intifada,  Arabs  and  Jews 
have  apparently  been  co-oper¬ 
ating  in  a  money-laundering 
operation  that  smuggled  at 
least  $1  billion  out  of  Israel  to 
banks  in  Europe. 

The  existence  of  the  alleged 
ring  involving  ultra-Orthodox 
Jews  and  Arab  moneychan¬ 
gers  from  annexed  east  Jeru¬ 
salem  was  exposed  when  de¬ 
tectives  made  nine  arrests  in 
Arab  and  Jewish  areas  after  a 
tip-off.  Two  Palestinians  and  a 
Jewish  student  from  an  Ortho¬ 
dox  religious  college  remain  in 
custody.  The  Jew  was  remand¬ 
ed  for  a  second  five-day  period 
on  Monday. 

Shmulik  Ben  Ruby,  chief 
spokesman  for  the  Jerusalem 
police,  said  yesterday  that 
income-tax  authorities  were 
also  involved  in  the  investiga¬ 
tion  and  more  arrests  were 
expected.  The  case  is  regarded 
as  involving  perhaps  the  big¬ 
gest  smuggling  ring  uncov¬ 
ered  since  the  foundation  of 
the  Jewish  state  in  1947.  "It 
seems  that  the  main  purpose 
was  to  spirit  money  out  of  the 
country  to  evade  the  tax  au¬ 
thorities.”  Mr  Ben  Ruby  said. 

Police  say  Arab  money¬ 
changers  passed  millions  of 
dollars  in  cash  and  gold 
several  times  a  month  to  their 
ultra-Orthodox  partners  who 
smuggled  it  to  Swiss  or  other 
European  banks,  using  for¬ 
eign  or  forged  passports. 


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A  Karen  family  seek  refuge  in  Thailand  yesterday  after  the  fall  of  Kawmoora  base 


bastion  m 
Burmese  v 
gas  attack  l 

From  Associated  Press 
j!W  MAE  SOT,  THAILAND 

ONE  of  wo*1? 
running  -  ' 

doned  its  last  agmfcsmt 
stronghold  yesterday  after jn-  .  v 
tensive  shelling 
bv  Burmese  troops,  rebel  and 
Thai  sources  said.  '  *  . ' :  •  - 

The  Burmese  ramed  abar-7  > 
rage  of  artillery  on  the  Karen-  w.: 
rebel  base  of  Kawmoom&onr 
midnight  until  3ao.'W».: 
2,400  rebels  to  abandon  de¬ 
base  before  dawn.  said  <$<>■-:_ 
nel  Direk  Yanrngamreapiruf  -fr- 
tfre  Thai  Army.  Karen  rebel*,., 
said  they  did  not  have  enough 
weapons  and  ammuiHtipnTO 
defend  the  base  ftom-Ttfiei 
attack  by  thousands 
mese  soldiers.  They  sa& 
Burmese  troops  fired  gas  into 
the  base,  making  some  rebds 
unconscious  and  giving  olh- 
ers  breathing  and  vision 
difficulties.  . 

A  Bangkok-based  support 
group  for  the  Burmese _oppor  -  ^ 
sition.  Burma  Issues.-sSd  ait  “ 
unknown  number  of  rebels 
were  killed  in  thesheOiogor  -s 
rendered  unconscious.  Some 
were  reported  to  have.^beeii.  . 
killed  by  the  poison  gas:  *  -  ■  '■ 

The  Karen  said  tbat.tiyo  of  ; 
their  troops  were  killed  and  12 
injured  in  the  overnight a£ 
lack.  They  had  no  casualty  - 
figures  for  the  Burmese 
soldiers. 

The  Karen .  are  among 
about  a  dozen  ethnic  minor-  -  . 
ides  who  began  fightjr^.fifr.  . 
their  own  sovereignty  after  ■  * 
Burma  gained  independence  .. 
from  Britain  in  1948. 


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Denial  of  Bonn  ‘mediator  in 
sanctions  iran-Israel  talks’ 


sanctions 
breach  on 
Iraq  visit 

Bv  Michael  Dynes 
and  James  Bone 

ORGANISERS  of  the  British 
business  delegation  conduct¬ 
ing  exploratory  trade  talks  in 
Baghdad  yesterday  denied  al¬ 
legations  dial  they  were  break¬ 
ing  United  Nations  sanctions 
against  Iraq. 

Edmund  Sykes  and  Stephen 
Crouch,  the  commercial  lob¬ 
byists  who  arranged  the  27- 
strong  delegation,  are  under¬ 
stood  to  have  failed  to  obtain 
the  necessary  licence,  putting 
them  in  breach  of  UN  sanc¬ 
tions.  Under  British  law.  Brit¬ 
ish  citizens  must  obtain  a 
communication  licence  au¬ 
thorising  them  to  conduct 
trade  talks  with  Iraqi  officials 
while  sanctions  are  in  force. 

Mr  Sykes  said  in  Baghdad 
that  all  the  British  business¬ 
men  taking  part  in  the  trip  had 
obtained  the  necessary  li¬ 
cences.  He  criticised  Whitehall 
officials  for  starting  an  investi¬ 
gation  into  the  visit.  The 
Department  of  Trade  and 
Industry  refused  to  confirm  or 
deny  reports  that  it  has  started 
an  investigation  into  a  pos¬ 
sible  breach  of  sanctions,  al¬ 
though  it  said  any  evidence  of 
sanction-breaking  would  be 
examined.  “If  you  wish  to 
communicate  with  anyone  in 
Iraq  on  business,  you  are 
required  to  have  a  communi¬ 
cation  Licence.”  an  official  said. 
“Any  evidence  that  sanctions 
are  being  broken  by  commu¬ 
nicating  without  a  communi¬ 
cation  licence  would  be 
investigated  and  could  lead  to 
a  criminal  prosecution." 

Mr  Sykes  said  his  role  was 
to  introduce  the  British  busi¬ 
nessmen  to  Iraqi  officials  and 
business  executives.  “The  Brit¬ 
ish  Government  is  well  aware 
of  the  trip  to  Iraq,”  he  said. 
Reports  that  the  delegation 
was  under  investigation  were 
intimidating,  he  added. 

The  trade  delegation,  which 
has  representatives  from  the 
British  food,  pharmaceuticals, 
water  purification  and  build¬ 
ing  industries,  is  the  first  to 
visit  Baghdad  since  sanctions 
were  imposed  on  Iraq  after  its 
invasion  of  Kuwait  in  August 
1990.  Mr  Sykes  said  that  the 
delegation  was  ready  to  sign 
various  deals  with  Iraq,  and 
was  prepared  to  put  pressure 
on  the  Government  to  soften 
its  stance  on  sanctions. 

The  first  serious  move  in  the 
Security  Council  to  lift  the 
Iraqi  oO  embargo  could  come 
as  early  as  April,  when  France 
and  Russia  seek  to  reward 
Baghdad  for  cooperating  with 
UN  weapons  inspectors. 


From  Roger  Boyes  in  bonn 


GERMANY  has  been  acting 
as  go-between  in  secret  talks 
between  Israel  and  Iran  aimed 
in  the  first  instance  at  freeing 
Ron  Arad,  the  captured  Israeli 
1  pilot  security  sources  con¬ 
firmed  yesterday.  A  report  of 
the  delicate  contacts  between 
the  two  declared  enemies  first 
emerged  in  the  conservative 
Frankfurter  Allgemeine  Zeil- 
ung.  Iran  denied  yesterday 
that  meetings  have  taken 
place,  while  the  Israelis  said 
they  would  neither  deny  nor 
confirm  the  report 

A  Western  security  official 
was  in  no  doubt  about  the 
authenticity  of  the  report 
which  appears  to  have  been 
leaked  from  Helmut  Kohl’s 
chancellery.  “Some  of  Bonn’s 
allies  were  bemused  in  1993  by 
Germany's  red-carpet  treat¬ 
ment  of  the  Iranian  Police 
Minister.”  the  official  said.  “It 
was  then  quietly  explained 
that  the  Germans  were  acting 
with  the  Israelis  on  behalf  of 
Arad-”  The  last  Iranian-lsraeli 
meeting  in  Bonn  apparently 
was  in  December. 

The  pilot  was  shot  down  in 
1986  over  southern  Lebanon 
and  since  then  Israel  has 
made  him  into  a  test  of  the 
Government's  loyalty  to  cap¬ 
tured  or  lost  soldiers.  Official¬ 
ly.  the  last  sign  of  life  from 
Captain  Arad  came  in  1989 
and  even  yesterday  the  line 


from  Israel  was  that  there  is 
still  no  proof  that  he  is  alive. 

The  German  leaks  indicate, 
however,  that  the  Iranians 
have  passed  on  an  up-to-date 
video  of  die  prisoner.  Captain 
Arad's  wife  has.  been  to  Bonn 
several  times  recently,  appar¬ 
ently  to  check  the  authenticity 
of  material  provided  by  the 
Iranians.  A  letter  from  the 
pitot  has  reached  his,  wife 
through  German  channels. 

The  talks  appear  to  be  co¬ 
ordinated  by  Bemd  Schmid- 
bauer, '  Herr  Kohl’s  top 
security  adviser.  Representa¬ 
tives  of  Iran  and  Israel  have 
never  met  in  the  same  rpom  in 
Bonn,  but  information  and 
offers  have  been  carried  bade 
and  forth  by  German  j  diplo¬ 
mats  and  officials.  j 

There  is  something  of  a 
mystery  about  the  timing  of 
the  present  leaks.  Thejnews- 
paper  report  said  that  the  ne¬ 
gotiations  were  dose/  to  a. 
breakt  hrou  gh .  Diplomats 
speculated  that  a  deal; might, 
already  have  been  struck  and 
the  Germans  were  keen  to 
ensure  that  their  role  dbes  not 
go  unacknowledged.  Alterna¬ 
tively.  Herr  Schmidbauer 
may  be  coming  under  discreet 
criticism  from  America  or  Bri¬ 
tain  about  Bonn's  conjtinuing 
contacts  with  Iran  Ind  be 
trying  to  relieve  the  jhessure 
by  authorising  die  leak- 


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taken  by  the  Meteosat-5  satel¬ 
lite  over  two  months  last  year. 
Individual  photographs  of 
cloudless  areas  were  put  to¬ 
gether  to  provide  a  single 
doud-free  image.  Africa 
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cheap  alternative  to  imported 
fuel,  a  member  of  a  research 
team  said  yesterday. 

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using  a  new  Australian  tech¬ 


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over  phone  taps 


From  Charles  Bremner  in  Paris 


IN  THE  teeth  of  a  political 
storm.  Edouard  Balladur,  the 
French  Prime  Minister  and 
presidential  candidate,  denied 
yesterday  that  he  faced  a 
Watergate  ovfer  telephone  tap¬ 
ping  and  shrugged  off  calls  for 
the"  dismissal  "of  his  vital 
political  ally,  Charles  Pasqua. 
the  Interior  Minister. 

“This  has  nothing  to  do  with 
Watergate.”  M  Balladur  said 
as  the  media  and  presidential 
campaign  opponents  fanned 
the  dispute  over  his  involve¬ 
ment  in  the  •  soiled 
Marechal-Schuller  affair  into 
a  political  scandal. 

In  the  most  politically  em¬ 
barrassing  act  in  22  months  as 
Prime  Minister,  M  Balladur 
made  a  U-turn  on  Monday, 
throwing  responsibility  on  the 
police  for  the  illegal  tapping  of 
conversations  in  a  corruption 
inquiry  involving  an  official 


from  his  Gauliist  party.  The 
day  before,  he  had  taken 
responsibility  for  the  opera¬ 
tion.  which  had  been  ap¬ 
proved  by  his  office,  insisting 
that  there  was  nothing  illegal 
about  it. 

M  Balladur.  hitting  back  at 
foes  and  erstwhile  friends  yes¬ 
terday.  said  that  “the  real 
Watergate"  involved  the 
“thousands  of  totally  illegal 
telephone  taps"  that  were  dis¬ 
closed  last  week  as  having 
been  carried  out  by  a  secret 
police  unit  working  for  Presi¬ 
dent  Mitterrand  in  the  1980s. 
M  Balladur  called  the 
Martchal-Schuller  bugging 
affair  a  mistake.  “There  are 
3,000  such  cases  legally 
allowed  each  year.  Here  is  a 
single  example  of  the  law- 
being  misused.  To  make  this 
an  affair  of  state  is  bad  faith." 
he  said.  “How  can  one  com- 


Caution  urged  on 
single  currency 


From  George  Brock  in  Luxembourg 


MONETARY  union  will  be 
expensive  and  risky  for 
Europe  if  politicians  force 
economies  together  before 
they  are  ready  to  cope  with  the 
potential  strains  of  a  single 
currency.  Eddie  George,  the 
Bank  of  England  Governor, 
said  here  last  night 

In  a  speech  which  trod  a 
careful  tine  between  scepti¬ 
cism  and  polite  analysis  of  the 
arguments  for  a  single  curren¬ 
cy,  Mr  George  said  leaders 
debating  progress  towards  a 
monetary  union  should  be 
careful  not  to  let  “political 
aspiration ...  run  ahead  of  the 
economic  realities". 

Mr  George  echoed  the  view 
of  Helmut  Kohl,  the  German 
Chancellor,  who  said  in  Bonn 
on  Monday  that  the  rules  for 
establishing  the  stability  of  a 
European  Union  currency 
took  precedence  over  the  tar¬ 
get  date  of  1997  in  the  Maas¬ 
tricht  treaty.  Jurgen  Stark. 
Germany's  junior  Finance 
Minister,  told  EU  counter¬ 
parts  on  the  same  day  that 


technical  preparation  for  mon¬ 
etary  union  should  not  be 
allowed  to  create  die  impres¬ 
sion  that  Europe  was  ready 
before  the  economies  had 
converged. 

Mr  George  acknowledged 
the  arguments  in  favour  of  a 
single  currency  “to  the  extent 
that  it  would  increase  econom¬ 
ic  and  monetary  stability  with¬ 
in  Europe  and  make  the  single 
market  more  effective".  How¬ 
ever.  he  said,  “there  are  also 
potential  economic  risks  in 
moving  ahead  before  sustain¬ 
able  convergence  is  assured" 

For  a  single  currency  to 
work,  participating  states  had 
not  only  to  make  their  econo¬ 
mies  converge  but  also  to  stay 
close  to  each  other  afterwards, 
he  said.  Echoing  John  Major’s 
warning.  Mr  George  said  that 
an  ill-conceived  single  curren¬ 
cy  might  lead  to  arguments 
over  high  unemployment  or 
subsidies  which  “could  be¬ 
come  a  source  of  political  as 
well  as  economic  disharmony 
within  Europe." 


pare  this  with  Watergate, 
which  involved  political  espio¬ 
nage  in  the  offices  of  a  political 
organisation?” 

The  Prime  Minister,  whose 
lead  in  the  presidential  cam¬ 
paign  has  been  whittled  down 
by  Lionel  Jospin,  the  Socialist 
contender,  said  he  had  no  in¬ 
tention  of  seeking  the  resigna¬ 
tion  of  M  Pasqua.  the  con¬ 
troversial  Gauliist  heavy¬ 
weight  who  is  directly  in  the 
tine  of  fire  in  the  telephone 
affair.  “He  is  a  very  good 
minister  and  as  such  he  has 
my  confidence,"  he  said. 

That  did  not  mean  that  M 
Pasqua.  who  flew  back  to 
Paris  from  Marseilles  to  meet 
the  Prime  Minister  yesterday, 
had  been  saved.  M  Balladur 
has  ordered  an  investigation 
to  find  out  why  the  police,  who 
are  under  M  Pasqua 's  com¬ 
mand,  had  presented  a  mis¬ 
leading  version  of  the 
M aitchal- Schuller  case  when 
they  applied  to  the  Prime 
Minister's  office  for  routine 
authorisation  to  tap  the 
telephone. 

Such  taps  are  allowed  only 
in  matters  of  terrorism  or 
serious  organised  crime.  The 
complicated  affair  involved  an 
alleged  attempt  by  the  father- 
in-law  of  an  investigating 
judge  to  exton  money  from 
Didier  Schuller,  a  Gauliist 
politician,  for  having  the  judge 
stop  a  corruption  inquiry  into 
his  activities.  Jacques  Fran- 
quet,  chief  of  the  judicial 
police,  resigned  on  Monday 
after  the  Prime  Minister's 
office  accused  him  of  lying. 

Political  opponents  said  it 
was  highly  implausible  that 
M  Pasqua,  M  Franquefs  ulti¬ 
mate  boss,  would  not  have 
been  aware  of  the  operation 
given  the  involvement  of  M 
Schuller,  a  senior  figure  in  his 
own  political  fief,  the  departe- 
ment  of  the  Hauts-de-Seine. 

Scenting  blood  for  the  first 
time  in  the  campaign,  sup¬ 
porters  of  Jacques  Chirac.  M 
Bahadur's  Gauliist  rival,  de¬ 
nounced  the  Prime  Minister's 
handling  of  the  affair.  Alain 
Jupp6.  the  Foreign  Minister 
and  chief  lieutenant  to  M 
Chirac,  declared:  This  must 
be  pursued  to  the  end  ...  to 
establish  clearly  who  is 
responsible." 


THE  TIMES  WEDNE^DAYreBRUARYj^g 

Researchers  unravel  the  genetic  secrets  of  France^erttenarians 

Advice  to  unbo 


blue  eyes  can  ad 
years  to  your  lifi 


Medical  briefin<\ 
.... — a — — 


Jeanne  Calment  celebrates  her  120th  birthday  in  Arles  yesterday 


Oldest  woman  enjoys  star  role 


From  Adam  Sage 

IN  ARLES 


THE  eyes  are  a  little  cloudy 
now  and  the  ears  none  too 
good.  But  on  her  120th  birth¬ 
day  yesterday,  Jeanne 
Calment  was  unflustered  by 
media  attention. 

As  photographers  clustered 
around  her  at  her  retirement 
home  in  Aries.  Provence. 
Mme  Calment  looked  up  with 
the  merest  trace  of  a  smile. 
For  a  woman  who  witnessed 
the  first  days  of  the  telephone, 
the  aeroplane  and  the  cinema, 
the  international  press  call 
held  no  fears.  “The  pupils  of 
Aries  hotel  and  Catering  Coll¬ 
ege  are  going  to  serve  you 


lunch,"  an  employee  of  the 
home  shouted  into  her  right 
ear.  “Ah,"  replied  the  world’s 
oldest  living  person,  who  gave 
up  smoking  three  years  ago. 
“Good.  I'm  hungry." 

“She  knows  she’s  the  star 
and  it's  something  she  en¬ 
joys,"  said  Victor  Lebre.  the 
doctor  at  the  Maison  du  Lac 
retirement  home.  At  First  we 
thought  that  she  would  be 
tired  by  all  these  journalists, 
but  in  fact  they  amuse  her." 

This  was  just  as  welL  given 
the  size  of  the  celebrations. 
Along  with  SO  or  so  local 
dignitaries,  there  were  danc¬ 
ers.  singers  and  even  Philippe 
Douste-Blazy,  the  Health 
Minister,  who  turned  up  in 


time  for  a  piece  of  birthday 
cake.  There  were  thousands  of 
cards  and  flowers,  but  one 
person  appeared  to  be  absent 
—  Andrfr-Francois  Raffray.  77, 
a  solicitor  who  agreed  30 
years  ago  to  pay  a  life  annuity 
of  2500  francs  (£307)  a  month 
under  a  deal  to  make  him  the 
owner  of  Mme  Calment’s  flat 
when  she  dies. 

How  had  she  lived  so  long? 
Dr  Lebre  said:  "She  comes 
from  a  bourgeois  family  and 
has  never  worked."  Mme 
Calment  puts  it  down  to  God’s 
will.  In  237  days’  time,  if  He 
still  agrees,  she  will  beat  the 
longevity  record,  set  by 
Shieeshiyo  Izumi  of  Japan, 
who  died  in  19S6. 


IF  YOUR  boss’s  eyes  are  a 
steely  blue  as  he  fixes  your 
saze  across  the  desk,  beware 
of  their  colour  —  the  blue-eyed 
are  more  likely  than  those 
with  brown  eyes  to  make  old 
bones.  The  chance  that  ms 
early  demise  will  allow  you  to 
seize  his  chair  prematurely  is 

remore.  , 

The  survival  to  120  ot 
Jeanne  Calment  has  pub¬ 
licised  the  Chronos  study  m 
France  being  conducted  by  the 
Centre  d’Etude  du  Polymorph- 
isme  Humaine.  Doctors  at  the 
centre  are  investigating  the 
characteristics  of  centenari¬ 
ans.  They  have  had  many 
subjects  to  choose  from:  in 
1953  there  were  200  French 
people  who  were  over  100;  by 
19S3  the  figure  had  risen  to 
3.000  and  by  1993  to  5.000.  It  is 
estimated  that  by  2,050  there 
will  be  150.000.  The  centre  is 
looking  at  475  centenarians 
and  20  pairs  of  siblings  in 
which  both  are  aged  over  90. 

Researchers  have  found  that 
blue  eyes  convey  an  amazing 
advantaee.  although  Mme 
Calment’  bucks  the  trend,  hav¬ 
ing  brown  eyes.  While  most 
French  people  have  dark 
brown  ey  es.  42  per  cent  of  tire 
centenarians  investigated  are 
blue-eyed.  4  per  cent  had  grey 
eyes  and  7  per  cent  green.  The 
eyes  may  not  be  clear,  howev¬ 
er:  by  that  age  73  per  cent  had 
cataracts.  The  studies  confirm 
that  women  longer  than  men 
but  whatever  the  sex.  only  4 
per  cent  of  those  who  reach 
100  have  a  higher  than  aver¬ 
age  blood  cholesterol  level. 

There  is  no  single  hallmark 
that  distinguishes  people  who 
are  likely  to  become  centenari¬ 
ans.  but  several  genes  haw 
been  shown  to  have  an  influ¬ 
ence:  one  that  reduces  the 
chance  of  reaching  extreme 
old  age  is  linked  to  a  family 
history  of  Alzheimer's. 

If  the  news  about  cholesterol 
is  discouraging,  there  is  some 
good  news  for  those  with  a 
family  history'  of  heart  disease. 
It  seems  that  one -gene  that 
predisposes  to  coronary  heart 


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disease  in  middle  age  1  s 
beneficial  influence,  for  a 
who  do  not  succumb  t 
family  tendency  to  ha 
bean  attack  in  earlier 
more  likely  to  achieve 
longevity.  Hie 
life  is  not  necessarily 
health  before  his  final 
32  per  cent  have  high 
pressure,  20  per  cent  ' 

2.6  per  cent  are  diab 
16.7  per  cent  have  had. 

The  influence  of  afeood 
genetic  background  isllus- 
trated  by  Mme  Cal  mft 
history.  She  has  outliv  her 
own  family,  but  she  ca  is  of 
healthy  stock;  Her  fat  r,  a 
boat  builder,  lived  to  be  .her 
mother  to  86  ana  her  fptber 
Francois  to  97. 

Given  the  gem  s,  the 
research  centre  rngge 
the  chances  of  mikng 
be  improved  if  life  s 
ly  active  but  workis 
tiring.  Brisk  walks  ire 
but  a  lifetime  sped 
beet,  for  instance, 
active  but  is  too 
favour  survival, 
difference  in  lengtfrf 
between  town  an 
dwellers. 

Research  works:  award 
medical  accolades  it  the  in¬ 
troduction  of  antibtics  and 
vaccinations  which  ave  had  a 
great  influence  on  aemg,  and 
to  the  plumbing  art  beating 
engineers  for  impnied  cen¬ 
tral  heating,  reMgertioaand 
sanitation. 

Mme  Calment  Jtributes 
her  advanced  yeai  to  ter 
constant  interest  in  je  world 
around  her  and  he  sense  of 
fun.  She  says  she  sts  badly, 
hears  badly  and  is  <sing  the 
sense  of  touch,  but  ihtshecan 
still  smell  well  and  )  contin¬ 
ues  to  enjoy  her  food  in 
general  and  in  partition  her 
daily  chocolat  In;  ay  case; 
she  adds:  “1  will  dk  faghing  ” 
Her  opinions  echo  tbse  con¬ 
firmed  by  the  researc/eentre, 
which  has  demonstned  that 
those  whose  minds  re  most 
exercised  age  physicdy  most 
slowly.  7 


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BRITAIN  is  among  the  poor¬ 
est  countries  in  the  European 
Union,  joining  the  ranks  of 
Portugal.  Spain  and  Greece  as 
a  region  of  below-average 
economic  output,  accord  ing  le 
the  Union’s  statistical  office. 

The  survey  of  nations  and 
regions,  conducted  by  Euro¬ 
stat  and  based  on  1992  data, 
highlights  vastly  different  pat¬ 
terns  of  wealth  across  the 
Union  and  within  individual 
countries. 

Germany  had  the  starkest 
internal  differences,  a  conse¬ 
quence  of  unification,  with 
four  out  of  the  EU’s  seven 
richest  regions,  but  also  five  of 
the  seven  poorest.  The  five 
were  in  former  East  German 
territory,  but  Hamburg  was 
found  to  be  the  wealthiest 
region  within  all  nations  sur¬ 
veyed.  with  almost  double  the 
Union’s  average  regional 
figure. 

Britain's  GDP  was  margin¬ 
ally  lower  than  the  average  of 
the  15-nation  EU.  ahead  only 
of  Finland,  Spain.  Ireland, 
Portugal  and  Greece.  Within 
Britain,  the  South  East  came 
out  as  the  wealthiest  region, 
with  economic  output  above 
the  EU  average.  The  poorest 
regions  in  the  United  King¬ 
dom  were  Northern  Ireland 
and  Wales. 

Britain's  overall  poor  per¬ 
formance  was  boosted  by 
strong  economic  output  in 
Greater  London.  Without  this 
factor,  Britain  would  have 
fallen  behind  Finland  in  the 
league  table  to  eleventh. 


War  in  Chechenia 
‘claimed  25,000 
civilian  victims’ 


From  Richard  Beeston  in  Moscow 


NEARLY  25.000  civilians, 
many  of  them  women,  child¬ 
ren  and  the  elderly,  were 
killed  in  the  Russian  offensive 
against  Chechenia.  according 
to  statistics  released  yesterday 
by  Sergei  Kovalyov.  Russia’s 
human  rights  commissioner. 

In  a  damning  report  that 
could  have  damaging  implica¬ 
tions  for  President  Yeltsin. 
researchers  working  for  Mr 
Kovalyov  determined  that 
25.000  people  were  killed  be¬ 
tween  November  25. 1994  and 
January  25. 1995.  “The  scale  of 
the  losses  was  extreme."  said 
the  report,  which  went  on  to 
liken  toe  Russian  offensive  to 
the  Nazi  invasion  of  Poland. 
“It  is  only  comparable  to  the 
losses  Poland  sustained  dur¬ 
ing  toe  Second  World  War." 

According  to  toe  document 
the  civilian  death  toll  includes 
3,700  children  under  the  age  of 
15;  4.650  women  over  15:  and 
2,650  men  over  50.  About 
14,000  men  between  15  and  50 
were  also  killed,  but  only  650 
fatalities  were  believed  to  be 
armed  separatist  fighters. 

Although  Mr  Kovalyov,  the 
main  liberal  campaigner 
against  the  ten-week  conflict, 
has  been  accused  of  distorting 
the  situation  on  toe  ground 
and  inflating  the  Govern¬ 
ment's  much  smaller  casualty 
estimates,  he  may  be  close  to 
the  mark.  Aid  workers  and 
journalists  who  have  visited 
the  devastated  Chechen  capi¬ 
tal  of  Grozny  have  reported 
that  several  thousand  civilians 
were  killed  in  toe  intense 
artillery  and  air  bombard¬ 
ment 

The  toll  was  high  because  of 


the  heavy  weaponry  used  and 
the  lack  of  medical  facilities. 
Many  of  the  wounded  died 
from  their  injuries. 

Some  of  the  dead  are  still 
covered  in  toe  rubble  of  the 
buildings  that  collapsed  on  top 
of  them  or  have  been  left 
unattended  in  the  city  streets 
several  weeks  after  they  were 
killed.  Most  of  the  dead  are 
believed  to  be  ethnic  Russians 
who  were  unable  to  leave 
Grozny  because  they  had  no¬ 
where  else  to  go. 

The  document  did  not  give  a 
figure  for  Russian  military 
losses,  which  are  believed  to 
be  more  than  1.000  dead  or 
missing  servicemen,  most  of 
whom  were  also  killed  in  the 
siege  of  Grozny. 

The  reported  scale  of  the 
casualties  did  not,  however, 
appear  to  have  any  calming 
effect  on  the  ground.  Yester¬ 
day  morning  fresh  fighting 
was  reported  across  toe  break¬ 
away  republic  as  Russian 
forces  launched  an  offensive 
against  rebel-held  towns  and 
villages  to  the  east,  south  and 
west  of  Grozny.  Russian 
bombers  reportedly  hit 
Chechen  positions  in  Guder- 
mes.  Argun  and  Samashki, 
backed  up  by  tanks  and 
artillery. 

For  their  pan  toe  Chechens 
do  not  appear  to  be  ready  to 
give  up  the  fight  Anatoli 
Shabad.  a  liberal  member  of 
the  Russian  parliament  who 
recently  met  General  Dzhokar 
Dudayev,  the  Chechen  sepa¬ 
ratist  leader,  said  that  the 
Chechens  were  capable  of 
launching  a  counter-attack  to 
retake  Grozny. 


Van  Miert  waive  his. 
diplomatic  immi  ity  . 


Belgi; 
‘bribe!’ 


searc 


By  George  Buck 


THE  home  and 
Belgium's  Europeail 
Commissioner  havf 


searched  by  police  'destigat- 


<pce  of 
Union 
been 


bribes 


ing  allegations  tod _ 

were  paid  to  Belgiaipolitical 
parties  to  persuade  fe  Gov¬ 
ernment  to  buy  It 
tary  helicopters. 

Karel  van  Miert,  | 
missioner  for 
Policy.  waived  his 
immunity  and  allc 
to  search  his  C 
office  and  home., 
number  of  papers 
from  his  home, 
was  President  of 
Socialists  in  1988  \ 

were  allegedly  paiu _ 

purchase  of  46  hel  ipters  by 
toe  Belgian  Arm;  He  has 
denied  any  wrong:  ng. 

Police  also  want  interview 

Willy  Claes,  the  T  to  Secre¬ 
tary-General,  whtwas  Bel¬ 
gian  Minister  for  Economic' 
Affairs  in  1988.  He  is  denied 
any  knowledge  of  i  j  bribery. 
Several  alleged  tddlemen 
were  arrested  last  ek. 


TV’s  commercial  break 


Moscow:  Russian  state  tele¬ 
vision  has  temporarily 
banned  all  commercials,  call¬ 
ing  advertisements  "a  source 
of  irritation  and  disappoint¬ 
ment**.  officials  said 
yesterday. 

Directors  of  Russia's  huge 
state  network.  Ostankina 
said  television  should  be  an 
instrument  for  accord  and 
agreement  in  society,  and  that 
advertisements  would  be 


banned  ‘until  strict  rules  are 
set  up  to  regulate  advertise¬ 
ments  in  toe  interests  of 
economic  development  of  so¬ 
ciety  and  ethical  standards". 
Ostankino  is  due  to  complete 
reorganisation  in  April. 

The  announcement  came 
just  two  days  after  President 
Yeltsin  limited  advertising  of 
products  that  could  be  injuri¬ 
ous  to  health,  such  as  alcohol 
and  tobacco.  (APj 


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om  Martin  Fletcher  in  Manchester,  new  Hampshire,  and  Ian  Brodie  in  Washington 
REPUBLICAN  presidential 


Shooeluls  returned  to  Washine- 
erday  after  an  opening 
foray  in  New 
■Ure  that  established 
igs:  Robert  Dole  is  the 

_  beat,  and  preferential 

u  ean  ient  for  racial  minorities 
is  m  issue  with  which  his 
pary  plans  to  split  the  Demo¬ 
crat*  in  19%. 

Vr  Dole  was  far  ahead  of 
his  ueht  possible  rivals  for  the 
Republican  nomination.  His 
campaign  ran  a  full-page  ad- 
vertsement  in  a  local  news- 
papir  listing  20.000  New 
Hampshire  supporters,  33 
time;  more  than  his  entire 
vote  of  S97  in  New  Hamp¬ 
shire's  1980  primary  when  he 
finisled  seventh. 

Gtne.  too,  was  the  snarling 
Bob  Dole  that  New  Hamp¬ 
shire  rejected  in  favour  of 
Georje  Bush  in  the  1988 
primiry.  This  time  he  was 
nmnj  and  relaxed,  joking  that 
he  hid  left  behind  his  wife. 
Elizabeth,  president  of  the 
American  Red  Cross,  lest  she 
turned  his  meetings  into  cam¬ 
paigns  for  blood  donors.  The 


Senate  leader  also  joked  that 
at  71  he  might  be  a  little  young 
and  would  therefore  balance 
his  ticket  with  Strom  Thur¬ 
mond,  a  fellow  senator  who  is 
92.  Mr  Dole  is  seeking  to  turn 
his  age  to  advantage  by  stress¬ 
ing  his  membership  of  a 
generation  that  weathered  the 
Depression,  helped  to  win  the 
Second  World  War  and  then 
built  America  into  a  world 
power  that  defeated  commu¬ 
nism.  Mr  Dole  will  formally 


announce  his  candidacy  on 
April  14.  the  50th  anniversary 
of  the  day  he  was  seriously 
wounded  in  Italy  and  left  with 
a  crippled  right  arm.  He 
recalls  how  he  decided  to 
mount  a  third  presidential  bid 
during  last  summers  D-Day 
commemorations  because  he 
believed  there  was  “maybe 
one  more  mission,  one  more 
call  to  service"  for  his 
generation. 

It  is  a  strategy  that  cleverly 
contrasts  himself  with  Presi¬ 
dent  Clinton  and  Senator  Phil 
Gramm  of  Texas,  his  stron¬ 
gest  rival  for  the  Republican 
nomination.  Both  avoided  the 
Vietnam  War  and  both  belong 
to  a  baby-boom  generation 
widely  perceived  as  selfish 
and  self-indulgent 

Mr  Dole's  age  means  it  is 
particularly  important  that  he 
chooses  a  running  mate  of 
stature,  and  he  has  teased  the 
media  by  disclosing  that  he 
recently  had  a  meeting  with 
General  Cotin  Powell,  the 
former  Chairman  of  the  Joint 
Chiefs  of  Staff.  However.  Gen¬ 
eral  Pbwell  remains  silent 


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advantage  from  age 

Mexico  clinches  US  aid  deal 


THE  Unii  xi  States  reached 
agreement  with  Mexico  yes¬ 
terday  ove  a  $20-biliion  (£13- 
billion)  An  ?rican  aid package 
to  underp  i  the  ailing  Mexi¬ 
can  econo  ly. 

The  agi  ement  comes  after 
five  days  of  often  difficult 
negotiatios  and  allows  the 
aid  packa  e.  authorised  three 
weeks  agi  by  President  Clin¬ 
ton,  logo!  irward.  The  Ameri¬ 
can  supprt  will  anchor  an 
intematio  al  rescue  package 
word]  abut  $50  billion,  de¬ 
signed  to  ide  Mexico  over  a 
cash  crisi  brought  on  fay  a 
heavy  rel  nee  on  short-term 
debt  and  burgeoning  trade 
deficit  I 

The  Ua  Treasury  released 
few  detais  about  the  agree¬ 
ment  butkaid  it  would  pro- 


From  Reuter  in  Washington 

vide  more  information  at  a 
signing  ceremony  attended  by 
Robert  Rubin,  the  Treasury 
Secretary,  and  Guillermo  Or¬ 
tiz,  the  Mexican  Finance 
Minister. 

The  latest  talks,  which 
began  last  Thursday,  came  as 
the  American  and  Mexican 
financial  markets  were  buffet¬ 
ed  by  concern  over  the 
negotiations. 

Reports  suggested  that  the 
United  States  intended  to 
freeze  payments  for  Mexican 
oil  as  a  condition  for  bailing 
the  country  out  of  its  crisis. 
Instead  of  paying  directly  for 
Mexican  oil.  American  com¬ 
panies  would  deposit  pay¬ 
ments  with  the  Federal 
Reserve  —  the  US  central 
bank  —  which  would  transfer 


them  to  Mexico.  This  propos¬ 
al  was  intended  to  ease  the 
concerns  of  American  critics 
who  feared  the  aid  would  not 
be  used  effectively  or  might 
not  be  repaid. 

On  Monday  the  Mexican 
Government  increased  short¬ 
term  interest  rates  by  10 
percentage  points,  raising  the 
rate  on  some  government 
debt  to  50  per  cent.  The  rise 
was  seen  as  Mexico's  re¬ 
sponse  to  American  pressure 
that  it  should  tighten  mone¬ 
tary  polity  to  qualify  for  the 
American  aid  package. 

The  apparent  difficulty'  in 
reaching  a  deal  with  Mexico 
has  further  shaken  the  Mexi¬ 
can  stock  market  and  bedev¬ 
illed  the  dollar,  under  attack 
by  speculators. 


Quest  for  super-bug  lures 

into  city  sewers 


BVbUANA  AHUJA 

BIOLOOSTS  have  descend¬ 
ed  rntothJ  gutter  in  their  quest 
for  the  iilimate  super-germ.  A 
trawl  of[  the  Atlanta  sewer 
system  ui covered  a  virus  so 
pugnacious  it  killed  virtually 
every  bacterial  infection  in 
mice.  Th*  results  are  encour¬ 
aging  doctors  in  their  search 
for  new  ways  to  combat  resil¬ 
ient  rakobes. 

Brno  Levin  of  Emory  Univ¬ 
ersity,  Atlanta,  told  the  annual 
meetinj  of  the  American  Asso¬ 
ciation  or  the  Advancement  of 


Science  that  the  experiment  to 
isolate  phages  —  viruses  that 
kill  bacteria  —  was  based  on 
ideas  first  propounded  in  the 
1920s.  The  approach  was 
abandoned,  however,  after  the 
discovery  of  antibiotics. 

Since  then  bacteria  have 
been  mutating  into  ever  more 
resistant  strains,  with  so- 
called  super-germs  evolving 
faster  than  scientists  can 
eradicate  them.  The  same 


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scribed  for  a  spectrum  of 
infections,  and  the  bacteria 
quickly  learn  to  fight  common 
drugs.  Experts  often  recom¬ 
mend  letting  weak  infections 
go  untreated  to  avoid  building 
resistance.  For  more  serious 
diseases,  doctors  hope  ro  keep 
one  step  ahead  by  pitching 
germ  against  germ. 

Deliberately  exposing 
people  to  harmless  bacteria 
that  will  crowd  out  harmful 
types  is  one  approach  and 
serum  therapy  may  also  make 
a  comeback-  It  involves  taking 
antibodies  from  the  blood  of 
people,  or  possibly  animals,  ro 
boost  the  body's  defences. 


□  New  energy.  The  world's 
energy  problems  could  be 
solved  by  tapping  into  the 
ocean  floors,  geologists  have 
told  the  conference. 

Icy  water-methane  mixtures 
called  hydrates  have  been 
manufactured  in  laboratories 
but  flourish  naturally  only  at 
the  high  pressures  and  low- 
temperatures  found  under¬ 
neath  the  ocean.  The  harness¬ 
ing  of  these  natural  gas 
reserves  would  triple  the 
world’s  fossil  fuel  reserves. 

Research  cruises  have  al¬ 
ready  sampled  the  hydrates 
and  collection  will  begin  in 
November.  Britain  is  manag¬ 
ing  the  scientific  side  of  the  19- 
nation  Ocean  Drilling  Pro¬ 
gramme.  which  will  first  drill 
in  the  shallow  Atlantic  off  the 
coast  of  North  Carolina. 

□  Race  update:  Race  has  no 
meaning  in  biological  discus¬ 
sions.  scientists  have  told  the 
meeting.  Its  dismissal  comes 
in  a  updated  definition  of  race 
by  Unesco.  It  concludes  that 
people  would  be  better  classi¬ 
fied  on  the  basis  of  geographi¬ 
cal  location  than  physical 
attributes  such  as  colour. 

The  new  definition,  submit¬ 
ted  to  Unesco  by  anthropolo¬ 
gists.  is  expected  to  be 
approved  shortly.  Scientists 
claim  the  present  concept  of 
race  is  rooted  in  colonialism 
and  has  no  bearing  on  human 
evolution.  The  revision  would 
appear  to  discredit  highly 
publicised  research  work  car¬ 
ried  out  recently  in  the  United 
States,  which  claimed  a  link 
between  race  and  intelligence. 


about  his  political  ambitions 
and  affiliations.  Mr  Dole  is 
tacking  rightwards  quickly  to 
court  foe  Republican  activists 
who  determine  their  party’s 
nominee,  and  joined  all  his 
main  Republican  rivals  in 
New  Hampshire  in  denounc¬ 
ing  “affirmative  action"  laws 
ordering  that  people  be  em¬ 
ployed.  admitted  to  colleges  or 
awarded  contracts  on  the  ba¬ 
sis  of  their  race  or  sex. 

This  is  an  issue  that  is 
rapidly  gaining  traction  in 
America,  with  polls  showing 
most  Americans  believe  pro¬ 
grammes  have  gone  too  far  in 
promoting  civil  rights  and 
now  discriminate  against 
whites.  It  is  an  issue  Republi¬ 
can  strategists  believe  could 
secure  the  support  of  millions 
of  angry  white  Americans  and 
shatter  the  traditional  Demo¬ 
cratic  coalition  of  liberals  and 
conservatives. 

Mr  Dole’s  possible  cam¬ 
paign  for  the  White  House  will 
be  helped  by  the  Republicans' 
onslaught  against  Mr  Clinton 
in  Washington  with  Newt 
Gingrich's  promise  of  House 
votes  within  100  days  on  key 
Bills  in  the  Contract  with 
America  reaching  the  hallway 
stage  today. 

However,  the  easy  part  app¬ 
ears  to  be  over  with  initiatives 
beginning  to  pile  up  in  the 
Senate,  traditionally  slower 
and  more  cautious  than  the 
House  of  Representatives.  Be¬ 
yond  that  lies  the  threat  of  Mr 
Clinton's  veto. 

By  Day  50  today,  the  only 
promise  in  the  Contract 
signed  into  law  is  the  one 
making  Congress  live  by  the 
same  workplace  and  civiF 
rights  laws  as  other  Ameri¬ 
cans.  Other  measures  are  still 
being  debated  and  two  have 
been  defeated. 

However,  Mr  Gingrich  is 
on  target  and  the  entire  Con¬ 
tract  mil  have  been  brought  to 
the  House  floor  for  a  vote  one 
week  before  the  lOOday  dead¬ 
line  on  April  13.  That  was 
what  the  Republicans  prom¬ 
ised,  not  that  the  Bills  would 
all  be  passed. 


AN  ELDERLY  Aborigine, 
almost  blind  from  cataracts, 
sits  in  his  poor  home  150 
miles  north  of  Altec  Springs. 
Past  racist  policies  have  left 
devastating  soda]  scars  on 
the  indigenous  people  of 
Australia,  according  to  the 


Image  of  a  people’s  scars 


first  national  survey  of  Ab¬ 
origines.  published  yester¬ 
day.  Charles  Perkins,  the 
Deputy  Aboriginal  and  Tor¬ 
res  Strait  Islander  Commis¬ 


sioner,  said:  “Our  people  are 
less  educated,  more  poorly 
boused,  four  times  more 
likely  to  be  unemployed,  at 
greater  risk  of  imprison¬ 


ment  and  in  worse  health 
than  the  wider  Australian 
community.  To  a  significant 
extent  our  culture  is  intact, 
but  we  demand  a  qualify  of 
life  where  our  culture  and 
our  people  can  do  more  than 
survive."  (Reuter) 


Jazz  landmark  blows  birthday  trumpet 


From  James  Bone 

IN  NEW  YORK 

THE  Village  Vanguard,  a 
tiny  triangular  room  in 
Greenwich  Village  that  is 
America’s  oldest  jazz  club,  is 
celebrating  its  60th  anniver¬ 
sary  with  a  week-long  birth¬ 
day  party  reuniting  many  of 
the  stars  it  made  famous. 

Since  it  opened  in  a  former 
speakeasy  on  lower  Seventh 
Avenue  in  1935,  the  Vanguard 
has  become  a  shrine  for  jazz 
fans  with  performances  by 
such  notables  as  Thelonius 
Monk.  Miles  Davis.  Sonny 
Rollins.  Charley  Mingus  and 
John  Coltrane. 

Even  though  it  is  impossi¬ 
ble  to  see  a  umole  band  at  the 
same  time  from  anywhere  in 
the  room,  the  wedge-shaped 
chib  has  near-perfect  acous- 


Monk:  helped  to  put  the 
Vanguard  on  the  map 

tics  and  more  than  100  live 
albums  have  been  recorded 
there. 

In  its  early  years,  the 
Vanguard  was  also  a  show¬ 
case  for  Beat  poets,  comedi¬ 


ans  and  folk  singers,  and 
became  a  mainstay  of  New 
York  bohemia. 

Max  Gordon,  the  dub’s 
legendary  founder,  gave 
Woody  Allen  his  first  break 
as  a  stand-up  comic  —  al¬ 
though  he  bombed  with  the 
audience.  Barbra  Streisand 
and  Harry  Belafonte  both  got 
their  first  chance  as  singers 
on  the  Vanguard  stage. 

“It’s  the  oldest  continuous 
jazz  club  in  the  nation,  proba¬ 
bly  the  world,  and  Max  never 
changed  to  suit  the  fashions 
of  foe  time,"  said  Nat 
Hen  toff,  a  jazz  critic  and 
writer  for  the  Village  Voice. 

The  Vanguard  is  still  run 
by  Max  Gordon's  widow. 
Lorraine.  “People  work  here 
forever  because  this  place  is 
like  a  family — a  dysfunction¬ 
al  family.”  she  says.  Conduct¬ 


ing  business  from  the  dub's 
former  kitchen,  which  also 
doubles  as  a  dressing  room. 
Mrs  Gordon  has  remained 
true  to  her  husband's  spirit  of 
experimentation. 

Despite  lucrative  offers  to 
licence  other  Village  Van¬ 
guards  all  over  the  world,  she 
focuses  her  attention  (Hi  the 
dub  and  strives  to  bring  new 
talent  to  the  public. 

To  celebrate  the  60th  anni¬ 
versary.  however,  she  has 
booked  a  host  of  stars  long 
associated  with  the  dub:  Shir¬ 
ley  Horn,  the  vocalist,  Pete 
Seeger.  the  folk  singer,  Bobby 
Short,  the  pianist  and  singer, 
and  Allen  Ginsberg,  the  poet 
President  Clinton,  a  saxo¬ 
phonist.  has  sent  a  tribute, 
and  tiie  local  council  has 
renamed  the  street  outside 
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V 


thf  TIMES  WEDNESDAY  FEBRUARY'S 


The  spouse  who  sacrifices  a  high-flying  career  to  care 


for  husband  and  home  deserves  her  half  of  the  pension 


IT  IS  evening.  The  City  is  nervous,  the 
roads  bad.  the  trains  late.  Two  captains 
of  industry,  stress-lines  deep  in  their 
chalky  faces,  arrive  at  their  respective 
homes.  Coming  through  the  front  door, 
one  of  them  finds  order,  the  smell  of 
wholesome  food,  cheerful  children  and  a 
gin  and  tonic  to  drink  while  wandering 
found  the  garden  in  the  perfumed  dusk. 

The  other  one  has  to  kick  the  swollen 
front  door  open,  pick  up  the  milk  bottles, 
deposit  them  beside  the  sinkfu]  of 
reeking  cereal  bowls  from  breakfast  and 
stare  at  a  note  saying  “Mrs  M.  has  'flu. 
Anneliese’s  half-day  so  pse  fetch  kids 
from  Janet's  by  7  ’cos  she’s  going  out.  ill 
be  la/e.  design  meeting.  Will  pick  up 
pizza".  The  lonely  figure  sorts  gloomily 
through  the  post  on  the  mat,  noting  that 
the  washing  machine  man  called  but 
nobody  was  in.  and  trudges  off  into  the 
night  to  collect  a  brace  of  tired,  fractious 
children  from  the  neighbour. 

Which  executive,  do  you  suppose, 
arrives  in  the  office  next  day  bet 


Paying  for  the  pleasure  of  a  wife 


prepared  to  nuke  the  opposition  and  lead 
from  the  front?  The  first  (note  how 
carefully  I  have  not  committed  myself  to 
gender)  is  reasonably  likely  to  turn  up 
dapper  and  spry  as  befits  a  corporate 
kick-boxer. 

The  second  will  bring  a  crumpled 
shirt-front,  a  scrawled  list,  of  potential 
cleaning  ladies'  telephone  numbers,  and 
a  carrier  bag  containing  a  defective  Star 
Trek  toy  to  be  exchanged  at  Hamleys. 
Alternatively,  having  refused  to  bear  any 
of  die  above  burdens,  he  or  she  will  bring 
an  earful  of  marital  discord  and  a 
splitting  headache. 

What  I  am  trying  to  say  is  that  spouses 
(oh.  all  right,  women:  reverse  the  genders 
yourself)  who  sacrifice  their  careers  in 
marriage  do.  indeed,  earn  their  half  of 
the  pension.  God  bless  the  rebel  Lords 


who  forced  the  Government  to 
recognise  this  on  Monday. 

Power  to  their  noble  elbows. 

I  never  expected  to  say  this. 

In  the  idealistic  Seventies  we 
honestly  thought  the  problem 
would  end  with  our  mothers' 
generation,  because  henceforth 
all  decent  husbands  would  take 
half  the  domestic  load,  so  their 
wives  could  go  out  and  earn  LIE 
their  own  pension.  Life,  alas,  pT  m 
has  brought  us  low  and  taught  r 
us  better.  We  now  see  that 
every  high-flying  career  needs  a  domes- . 
tic  support  system.  Not  only  do  men 
dream  of  having  a  traditional  wife, 
women  do  as  weD. 

it  is  a  truth  universally  acknowledged 
that  every  working  mother  needs  a  wife. 


LIBBY 

PURVES 


A  proper  wife;  by  which  !  do 
not  necessarily  mean  one  who 
does  no  paid  work  at  all:  she 
may  have  something,  but  she 
'  firmly  puts  it  second.  Prefera¬ 
bly  it  is  part-time  or  portable 
anyway.  She  will  relocate  good- 
humouredly  to  Newcastle  or 
Mannheim",  entertain  your  col¬ 
leagues  and  take  time  off  with  a 
3Y  sick  child.  Her  own  work  is  not 
rpc  stressful,  so  she  has  stress- 
bearing  capacity  to  spare.  In 
our  drains! 

Evejyone  with  a  demanding  career 
(except  tiie  odd  committed  loner) 
fantasises  about  coming  home  to  order 
and  harmony,  to  a  home  life  maintained 
not  by  sullen  and  unreliable  hirelings 
but  by  committed  love.  We  dream  of 


somebodv  to  care  about  our  clothes  and 
our  diet,  ro  run  our  children’s  lives  with 
affectionate  discipline:  of  a  house  which 
is  fully  inhabited.  The  kind  which  can 

have  a  doe.  . 

The  dog  thing  is  symptomatic  there 
was  a  report  recently  that  the  canine 
pODulation  is  dropping  _  as  twoweer 

families  rum  to  cats,  which  fit  in 
with  empty  houses  and  busy  lives.  All 
very  well  if  vou  prefer  cats  as  1  do;  but 
think  of  the  stress  on  natural  dog-lovers. 
Such  types  look  to  their  pets  for  uncnbcal 
adoration,  intense  sociableness  and  obe¬ 
dient  anxiety  to  please:  if  they  are  being 
forced  to  make  do  with  the  aloof, 
insubordination  of  cats,  no  wonder  the 
poor  devils  end  up  with  their  self-respect 
in  taners  and  can't  punch  their  way  out 
of  recession. 


Sming equal  pensions,  is  frankly  Ml  cn 

marrying  them.  I  sqy  ■ 

ANYWA^.'-Iuts  of  them  J*  JjFjfr' 

Even  the  least  energetic- wives  confr^ffi . 

oimethine.  if  only  3X1  a-biiity  to  Intel  > 
SEZFdXt  hellish  day  withcwtj 
constant  need  to  break-in  and  capnwti 
a  description  of  thdr  own.  JWj*  t 
woman  I  ever  meiwastfeas^i  by  h  - , 
husband-  “Just  looking  at  ber  retoc  | 
SE-  he  says.  “A  bit  like  having  tropic  1 

fiSsince  i  *n  man*  Itat  Wjgtaf; 
often  finds  me  more  like  J  • 

piranhas.  I  respect  his  pomt  tJJW-T  e  - 
perfect  spouse  is  not  .only  M#?.;  “f;_ 
Mary,  too.  Give  'em  the  monej^v.  ■  ] ;  : 
•  -  •  >  ~  ‘ . ‘  ■  •  f L 


TONY  WHITE 


Zeffirelli:  he  laments  today’s  lack  of  artistic  genius  for  future  generations  to  look  back  on.  “We  leave  behind  a  desert  This  disquiets  me  deeply.” 

Age  cannot  wither  him 

Franco  Zeffirelli  -  in  London  to  edit  his  latest  SS^affifflgSSB 
film,  Jane  Eyre  —  talks  to  Dalya  Alberge 
about  his  two  mistresses  and  his  beloved  dogs 


As  a  child  of  eight  in  Florence. 
FVanco  Zeffirelli,  the  film  and 
opera  director,  used  to  be 
followed  on  the  way  to  school 
by  a  woman,  who  would  mutter  at  him: 
** Bastardino .  little  bastard,  you  little 
bastard.  You'll  find  out.  Don’t  worry, 
some  day  you’ll  find  out"  Her  shadow 
seems  to  have  followed  him  for  most  of 
his  72  years;  there  is  an  unmistakeable 
sadness  in  his  otherwise  powerful  face. 

Zeffirelli  was  born  out  of  wedlock  in 
an  age  when  illegitimacy  was  a 
scandal.  His  mother  and  father  were 
married  to  different  people.  The 
woman  who  hounded  him  was  his 
father's  wife.  He  was  a  child  who  was 
mocked  at  school.  It  was  a  scandal 
fuelled  by  the  fact  that  his  mother  was 
a  prominent  couturier  in  Florence.  His 
father  was  a  businessman,  an 
importer. 

For  Zeffirelli,  the  pain  has  not  been 
eased  with  the  passing  of  decades  or 
the  experience  of  facing  a  firing-squad 
during  the  war.  as  a  partisan  fighting 
the  Fascists.  Nor  has  it  been  relieved  by 
worldwide  critical  acclaim  for  his  work 
—  operas  such  as  Tosca  with  Maria 
Cal  las  and  Tito  Gobbi,  and  films  such 
as  The  Taming  of  the  Shrew  with 
Richard  Burton  and  Elizabeth  Taylor. 

Zeffirelli  cannot  forget  his  begin¬ 
nings:  twice  in  our  short  conversation 
he  repeats  that  his  mother  refused  to 
abort  him.  That  explains  the  passion 
with  which  he  talks  about  abortion, 
“that  tragic  word".  “Abortion  is  the 
strongest  shame  of  the  human  race. 
There  is  nothing  more  important  than 
protecting  human  We  from  the  very 
beginning."  In  1993,  he  called  for  the 
death  penalty  to  be  brought  back  for 
women  who  have  abortions. 

He  has  never  married:  for  some,  he 
says  quietly  staring  down  at  the  floor, 
that  is  their  destiny.  At  the  age  of  six, 
his  mother  died  and  he  was  brought  up 
by  a  succession  of  different  women, 
including  a  distant  cousin  of  his  father. 
“Every  time  I  offered  love  to  one  of 
these  women.  I  was  forced  to  take  it 


back  and  give  it  to  another.  Soon  I 
stopped  looking  for  affection  and 
became  very  uncommunicative  emo¬ 
tionally.  1  still  have  difficulty  in 
trusting  love  when  it  is  offered." 

He  talks  instead  of  his  two  mistress¬ 
es  —  opera  and  film.  When  he  is 
involved  with  one,  he  misses  the  other. 
Only  his  Jack  Rus sells  can  compete. 
He  has  seven  of  them,  all  with  English 
names  like  Dolly  and  Jeremy.  It  is 
because  of  them  —  or  rather,  our 
quarantine  laws — that  he  does  not  buy 

a  house  here,  though  _ 

he  spends  much  of  the 

year  in  London.  In-  ‘JCLTli 

stead,  he  rents  a  tiny 

Georgian  house  in 

South  Kensington. 

Only  videos  of  Jesus  of  mm  l 

Nazareth,  in  which  he  t-uiiij 

directed  Robert  POwell  1T1 Q1 1T 

and  Laurence  Olivier,  UllaUI 

and  a  couple  of  mas-  j 

sive  television  sets  UtOCICI 

give  the  flimsiest  of  ___ 

dues  to  the  occupier.  ' 

Vane  Eyre  has  been  the  dreariest 
period  of  my  life,"  he  says  suddenly. 
Just  as  he  seems  to  be  changing  the 
subject  to  the  reason  he  is  in  London  at 
the  moment  —  finishing  the  film  by 
April  in  time  for  a  release  in  the 
summer  —  he  adds:  "I  was  very  lonely 
without  my  dogs."  He  bemoans  the 
“four  solid  months"  he  has  been  away 
from  them.  “Really  awful." 

He  is  presently  Immersed  in  editing 
Jane  Eyre.  The  irony  thar  the  E10 
million  picture  is  being  made  in  Britain 
without  British  investment  does  not 
escape  him.  “The  money  conies  from 
Italy.  It’S  being  shot  here,  using 
English  actors,  English  studios,  Eng¬ 
lish  hotels,  English  technicians,  but  the 


‘Jane  Eyre 
is  a 

completely 
unsurpassed 
modem  novel* 


English  have  put  very  little  money  in 
it"  He  talks  in  a  heavy  accent  that 
crushes  the  words:  when  he  says 
“length"  it  sounds  like  “land". 

His  is  the  fourth  Jane  Eyre  to  have 
been  brought  to  the  screen.  The  most 
famous  was  the  1943  version  with 
Orson  Welles  and  Joan  Fontaine.  He 
smarts  when  asked  how  his  interpreta¬ 
tion  differs,  saying  that  you  cannot 
make  comparisons.  “You  can  make 
200,000  versions  of  Romeo  and  Juliet 
but  they  will  never  be  the  same,"  says 

_  Zeffirelli,  whose 

sumptuously  passion- 
Evre  ate  film  of  1968  starred 

J  Olivia  Hussey  and 

□  Leonard  Whiting  at 

the  ages  of  just  15  and 

etely  He  is.  he  explains. 

lIlcCpri  trying  to  be  faithful  to 

aoocu  the  heart  and  mind  of 

-ji,  Charlotte  Bronte, 

novel  though  “everything, 

when  you  adapt  a 
novel  of  that  quality 
and  value,  cries  out  for  the  medium  for 
which  it  was  created".  If  anything,  he 
has  sought  primarily  to  bring  out  the 
modernity  of  the  novel.  “It  is  a 
completely  unsurpassed  modem  novel. 
It  could  happen  today,  except  for  the 
horrors  of  the  day.  such  as  the  way  they 
treated  children.  But  this  girl  is  a 
contemporary  approach  to  woman. 
That's  why  the  novel  has  been  so 
successful  with  generations  of  women. " 

Casting  Jane  was  hard.  “I  tried  and 
tested  all  the  girls  available.  I  went 
through  !. kindreds."  Eventually,  he 
whittled  down  the  numbers  to  a  dozen. 
But  something  was  missing  from  all  of 
them.  “I  needed  something  different,  a 
dimension."  He  knew  instantly,  the 


moment  he  did  a  test  with  Charlotte 
Gains bourg.  that  Franco  had  found  his 
Jane.  “She  is  wonderful.  She  goes 
against  the  rules  of  the  game.  She  is  not 
particularly  good-looking."  he  says  as 
straightforwardly  as  if  he  was  comple¬ 
menting  her.  "She  doesn’t  give  any¬ 
thing  except  what  matters.  Her 
performance  is  quite  unforgettable."Of 
William  Hurt,  who  plays  Rochester,  he 
speaks  of  this  being  the  best  perfor¬ 
mance  of  his  career. 


Observing  the  way  that  stan¬ 
dards  have  fallen  in  the  past 
30  years.  Zeffirelli  laments 
the  absence  of  giants  such 
as  Burton.  “It  is  like  many  other  things 
about  culture.  Why  are  there  no  great 
painters?  It  is  a  fallow  period.  We  leave 
behind  a  desert.  In  generations,  people 
will  ask  what  happened  between  1980 
and  2000.  Nothing  happened  This 
disquiets  me  deeply." 

He  talks  too  with  passion  about 
cruelty  to  animals:  as  a  politician  —  he 
became  a  senator  in  Silvio  Berlusconi’s 
Forza  Italia  party  last  March  —  he  is 
campaigning  for  their  rights.  “Life  is 
life,  whether  human  or  animal.  My 
motto  is  Leonardo's  famous  line,  that 
the  day  will  come  when  the  killing  of 
an  animal  will  be  punished  by  the  law 
with  the  same  severity  now  accorded  to 
the  killer  of  a  man." 

Zeffirelli  feels  as  strongly  about 
society's  emphasis  on  youth.  He  seeks 
to  bridge  the  divide  between  young  and 
old  Yet  society  dismisses  the  older 
generation,  he  says.  “I  don’t  say  that 
because  rm  in  that  age  bracket  I  do 
now  the  best  work  in  my  life.  Pm 
mature.  1  have  a  harmony  in  my  mind, 
in  my  spirit  I  know  what's  right  and 
wrong  better  than  I  did  ages  ago." 

Indeed,  he  ranks  Jane  Eyre  as  one  of 
his  most  powerful  films.  “1  wouldn't 
have  done  Jane  Eyre  20  years  ago.  I 
needed  more  exciting  stories.  This  is  a 
deep,  intense  story.  There  is  nothing 
except  these  characters  —  magnificent, 
modem  characters." 


Has  this  man 
unlocked  the  secrets 
of  happy  marriage? 

Dr  Jack  Dominian  believes  he  has  produced  a  blijiepr  nt 
for  wedded  bliss,  writes  Julia  Llewellyn  Smith. 

Dr  Jack  Dominian  was  marriage  as  “turbulent",  yet  Remembering  ^e^Mnt  ol 
21  and  dimbina  Wor-  only  death  parted  than.  But  loving  is  at  the  heart  dteutfi 
cestershire  Beacon  his  criterion  for  happiness  is  of  ms  advice,  wnch.Jhough 


Dr  Jack  Dominian  was 
21  and  climbing  Wor¬ 
cestershire  Beacon 
when  he  fell  “romantically  in 
love"  with  Edith,  who  was  to 
become  his  wife.  Why  do  you 
say  “romantically".  I  ask  Dr 
Dominian.  For  most  people, 
the  phrase  “to  fall  in  love" 
would  be  enough.  “I  mean  I 
fell  in  love  in  the  intuitive 
sense.”  he  explains,  impatient¬ 
ly.  “I  fell  in  love  instantly, 
which  is  romantic.  Otherwise. 

I  you  fall  in  love  gradually, 
which  is  gradual." 

Dr  Dominian  likes  to 
i  categorise  things:  to  sort  die 
thorny  mysteries  of  love  and 
marriage  into  neat  subsets. 
And  once  his  findings  are 
classed  into  diagrams  and 
tables,  he  uses  them  to  pro¬ 
duce  a  blueprint  for  what 
makes  the  perfect  marriage. 

For  nearly  25  years,  his 
mission,  as  the  founder  of  the 
charity  One  plus  One.  has 
been  to  investigate  not  why- 
couples  divorce,  but  why  they 
stay  together.  Last  year,  he 
was  appointed  MBE  for  his 
i  services  to  the  institution;  now 
he  has  published  his  findings 
in  Marriage .  billed  rather  am- 
I  biliously  by  his  publishers  as 
The  Definitive  Guide  to  What 
:  Makes  a  Marriage  Work. 

In  case  we  wonder  what 
makes  Dr  Dominian.  64,  so 
qualified,  we  can  inspect  his 
record:  educated  ar  Cam¬ 
bridge  and  Oxford,  a  senior 
consultant  psychiatrist  since 
1965, 15  books  (with  titles  such 
as  Christian  Marriage )  and, 
most  importantly,  a  40-year- 
marriage  to  Edith,  by  whom 
he  has  four  daughters  (“two 
married,  two  cohabiting"). 

Edith,  in  sensible  black  skirt 
and  cardigan,  with  hair  in  a 
bun,  answers  the  front  door  of 
their  comfortable  home  in 
Rickmansworth,  a  leafy  Hert¬ 
fordshire  suburb.  She  is  smil¬ 
ing  and  friendly,  which  is 
more  than  can  be  said  for  her 
husband,  who  reluctantly 
comes  downstairs.  “1  don’t 
like  publicity  very  much.”  he 
says,  in  a  guttural  accent  (he 
was  bom  in  Greece  and  learnt 
English  during  the  war  in 
India).  “1  like  writing  books." 

Nonetheless,  he  needs  the 
publicity,  not  only  for  himself 
but  for  his  organisation  which, 
he  claims,  is  woefully  under¬ 
funded.  “All  we  are  putting  in 
(to  marriage-related  charities) 
is  two  to  three  million 
pounds."  Meanwhile,  says  Dr 
Dominian.  40  per  cent  of  Bri¬ 
tish  marriages  end  in  divorce, 
costing  the  taxpayer  “at  least” 
£3  billion  a  year,  in  terms  of 
social  security,  police,  court 
and  prison  expenses,  lost  pro¬ 
duction  and  NHS  costs. 

His  book  produces  statistics 
to  show  that  children  whose 
parents  stay  together  —  how¬ 
ever  miserably  —  stand  a 
greater  chance  of  happiness 
than  those  whose  parents  split 
up.  Dr  Dominian  is  a  case  in 
point;  he  describes  his  parents’ 


marriage  as  “turbulent",  yet 
only  death  parted  them.  But 
his  criterion  for  happiness  is 
that  the  children,  da  not  di¬ 
vorce.  either,  which,  assumes 
that  marriage  ajafaefe.ti#  key 
to  fulfilment7;  V  “r-  ■  c.  \ 

“It  is."  .says  ;Dr  Dqrmnlan. 
“There  atetanbr  Jvjfo  things  in 
life  which  give ‘us  the^  majority 
of 

work  .and~one  is 
and  Fwouid  rate-marital  fife  as 
the  most  important  If  fulfils  a 
certain  number  of  bask  hu¬ 
man  needs:  attachment  btfcSfr; 
ing.  intimacy,-  love^TSfiX. 
There’s  no  other  institution," 
that  can  make-. :  compre- 


mm 


Remembering  “the  Mnt  of 
loving"  is  at  the  heart  otfmucfi 
of  his  advice,  whch.Jhough 
sincere,  can  be  irrifatingly 
mgetiuous.  Take,  fir  example, 
deairig  with  a 
“autious"  fie, 

is,  refiajfle^ 

l-pdssybfe  ^  is  “little 

becoming 
with  . 


<1  -  *  1  -"ri 


Dr  Dominian  and  Edith:  40  happy  years  togeder 


hensive  provision  for  all 
of  this.” 

So  why  is  the  institution 
crumbling?  Dr  Dominian 
blames  women’s  lib  for  blur¬ 
ring  the  traditional  duties  of 
man  as  breadwinner  and 
woman  as  housewife.  "Once 
marriage  was  a  contract  of 
social  roles.  Now  we  expect 
much  greater  emotional  and 
sexual  fulfilment.  We  want 
egalitarian,  loving  relation¬ 
ships,  and  this  is  not  in  itself  a 
bad  thing.  We  just  don’t  know 
how  to  develop  it." 


Modem  couples  try 
and  fail  to  sustain 
the  passionate  in¬ 
tensity  that  fuelled  the  early 
days  of  their  relationship. 
This,  according  to  Dr 
Dominian,  is  a  mistake  —  they 
should  instead  be  looking  at  a 
"companionate"  model  of 
marriage,  in  which  commit¬ 
ment  and  intimacy  coexist 
without  passion.  Sex  is  not 
very  important  in  Dr 
Do  mini an ’s  scheme  of  things. 
“The  frequency  of  the  sexual 
act  undoubtedly  drops."  he 
says.  "What  I  would  like  to 
stress  is  the  quality  of  each  act; 
it’s  the  fruit  of  loving." 


take  a  Jot  of  trouble  Jear  ing  to 
drive  a  car.  We  have  to  cake  a 
lot  of  trouble  learning  about 
contemporary  marriajk  We 
have  to  take  it  much  nuke  seri¬ 
ously  and  learn  tha  when 
problems  come  we  wifi  lave  to 
work  at  them." 

His  blueprint  for  a  happy 
marriage  is  to  have  imflar 
backgrounds,  educatk  l  and 
interests.  He  and  Edith  met  at 
a  conference  for  Cathc  k  stu¬ 
dents  and  he  is  at  pins  to 
remind  me  that  she,  tdo.  is  a 
graduate.  "She  worked  for  us 
a  little  bit  at  the  beginnng."  he 
says,  “but  now  she]  works 
mainly  at  home." 

All  Dt  Domini  an’s  psearch 
is  very  commendaBe,  but 
aren't  his  conclusion  a  bit 
idealistic?  He  thirls  not 
“People  are  not  promiscuous. 
We  are  shaped  for  five  from 
the  moment  we  are  pm.  We 
want  to  recapture  flat  bond 
with  our  mother  fom  the 
cradle  to  the  grave."] 

You’re  an  optimit  aren’t 
you.  I  say.  “Yes.”  ft  replies. 
“Yes,  I  am,"  and  pis  face, 
which  has  so  far  Sen  emo¬ 
tionless.  lights  upwith  the 
sweetest  of  smiles. 

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n  1993,  Andrew  and  Plat- 

I  ricia  Davidson  placed  an 

I  advertisement  for  Kings- 
JL  hill,  their  newly  formed 
mail-order  company  in 
Harpers  &  Queen.  Within  two 
weeks  die  couple  were  inun¬ 
dated  with  5.000  replies  from 
women  all  over  Britain  re¬ 
questing  their  catalogue  which 
promised  designer  fashion  by 
post.  “We  wanted  to  offer 
something  special  by  mail 
order,”  Mrs  Davidson  says. 
“Brand  label  designer  clothes 
were  never  previously  avail¬ 
able  in  such  a  way.” 

What  began  with  just  three 
designers  —  Caroline  Giarles, 
Amanda  Wakeley  and  Paul 
Costelloe  were  the 
first  to  sign  up  for  IF 
the  venture  —  has 
grown  apace.  There 
are  now  two  cata¬ 
logues  each  season. 

The  British  Design¬ 
er  Collections  and 
Diffusion ,  which  be¬ 
tween  them  feature  pQ\ 

more  than  30  _ 

designers. 

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to  the  designer  rata-  nr 

logue  is  Jasper  vv 

Conran,  who  joins  a 
formidable  cross-  — 

section  of  British 
<  fashion  talent,  from  John 
Rocha  to  Jean  Muir,  Betty 
Jackson  to  Bellville  Sassoon, 
Shirin  Cashmere  to  Tomasz 
Staizewski.  The  Diffusion 
range  is  equally  comprehen¬ 
sive:  Jaeger  London,  Benny 
Ong,  Whistles,  John  Smedley, 
Fenn  Wright  &  Manson,  and 
Ally  Capellino  Hearts  of  Oak 
are  among  those  included. 
Even  though  the  individual 
styles  of  the  featured  designers 
may  appear  disparate,  the 
Davidsons  have  chosen  looks 
from  each,  which  not  only 
complement  each  other,  but 
together  cover  every  possible 
wardrobe  panic. 

In  the  Designer  catalogue, 
Amanda  Wakeley’s  gorgeous 
separates  are  perfect  for  indul¬ 
gent  weekends,  as  are  Shinn 
Cashmere's  slinky  knits.  John 
Rocha,  Joseph  and  Betty  Jack- 
son  provide  easy  looks  with  a 


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fashion  accent,  while  Caroline 
Charles,  Jean  Muir,  Roland 
Klein  and  Paul  Costelloe  offer 
their  own  brand  of  sophisticat¬ 
ed  classics.  English  Eccentrics 
and  Georgina  von  Etzdorf  are 
famous  for  their  plush,  printed 
fabrics.  Kingshill  has  every¬ 
thing  from  the  outdoorsy  style 
of  Mulberw  to  the  unabashed 
glamour  of  Bellville  Sassoon. 

Originally  Mrs  Davidson 
approached  the  designers  to 
create  outfits  especially  for  the 
mall  order  market  but  soon 
realised  that  her  clientele  ap¬ 
preciated  the  real  thing.  “We 
now  sell  100  per  cent  main 
collections,"  she  says. 

Not  surprisingly,  these 

_  clothes  do  not  come 

====j]  cheap.  Yet  the  obvi¬ 

ous  success  of 
Kingshill  undoubt¬ 
edly  proves  that  the 
mail-order  business 
is  not  purely  the 
province  of  the  bar¬ 
gain  hunter. 
ion  “We  offer  what  is 

Lwn  good  in  fashion, 

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J  R.  walk  to  catalogue," 

D  Mrs  Davidson  says. 

D  D  However,  where- 

-  as  buying  a  T-shirt 

_  or  pair  of  stretch 

legjjpngs  by  mail  is 
painless,  the  idea  of  ordering  a 
Sassoon  ballgown,  a  sleek 

Paddy  Campbell  suit  or  a  Ben 
de  Usi  cocktail  dress  does 
appear  more  complex.  “There 
are  women  who  know  they  are 
a  Jean  Muir  size  ten.  while 
others  will  try  three  or  four 
designers  and  then  just  return 
what  isnt  right,"  Mrs  David¬ 
son  says.  “We  have  a  remark¬ 
ably  low  number  of  returns 
when  you  consider  what 
they're  spending.” 

Roland  Klein  says  that 
women  should  be  kind  to 
themselves  by  being  honest 
about  their  size  when  it  comes 
to  ordering.  “Everyone  wishes 
they  were  slimmer,  but  it's 
best  to  order  the  true  size.  It  is 
better  to  buy  a  size  larger  and 
have  it  altered  than  to  squeeze 
into  a  size  smaller.  The  clothes 
do  have  to  be  fairly  simple  and 
straightforward. " 


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Ben  de  Lisi  agrees.  “My 
clothes  sell  well  from  the 
catalogue  because  they  are 
devoid  of  superfluous  detail. 
What  you  see  is  what  you  get." 

Shopping  with  Kingshill.  by 
pjost,  telephone  or  fax.  certain¬ 
ly  provides  a  less  stressful  way 
to  buy  designer  fashion.  The 
upmarket  stores  can  be  forbid¬ 
ding  places  for  even  the  most 
confident  shopper.  It  is  also 
more  convenient  “By  simply 
making  a  phone  call  you  can 
try  things  on  without  the  fear 
of  anybody  watching  you  do 
it."  Mrs  Davidson  says. 

This  is  an  area  design¬ 
ers  are  keen  to  ex¬ 
plore.  Owning  a  shop 
may  win  kudos  but  it 
has  a  limited  appeal  —  relying 
on  passing  trade  or  reguar 
custom,  while  an  outfit  ap¬ 
pearing  on  the  page  can  go 
virtually  anywhere. 

“Were  able  to  show  an 
investment  piece  like  a  jacket 
in  three  or  four  different  sh  ies, 
by  as  many  designers,  and 
with  as  many  ways  of  wearing 
iL  all  in  the  same  catalogue," 
Mrs  Davidson  says.  In  this, 
the  Kingshill  catalogue  works 
much  like  a  magazine.  It  even 
introduces  the  new  season  and 
explains  the  new  mood  in  an 
editorial-style  foreword. 

“1  want  to  offer  more  infor¬ 
mation  about  the  clothes," 
Mrs  Davidson  says.  “It  is 
difficult  for  women  to  under¬ 
stand  fashion  when  they  see  it 
on  the  catwalk." 

There  is  nothing  confusing 
about  Kingshill.  The  catalogue 
provides  a  concisely  edited 
collection  of  designer  looks  — 
a  catwalk  full  of  possibilities  in 
the  comfort  of  your  own  home. 

•AH  clothes  available  from 
Kingshill  mail  order  catalogue. 
The  British  Collection.  [5:  Diffu¬ 
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AMANDA  WAKELEY:  cashmere/silk  tunic.  £395;  pants,  £273 


PUT  SMOKING  Out  of 
Fashion  is  a  new  adver¬ 
tising  campaign  aimed 
at  those  in  the  image 
industry.  Fashion  de¬ 
signers  are  giving  it  their 
support  during  London 
Fashion  Week.  The  first 
two  readers  to  reply  to 
The  Times  Fashion 
Dept,  1  Pennington 
Street  London  El  9XN 
can  see  for  themselves 
Helen  Storey's  interpre¬ 
tation  of  the  campaign, 
with  two  tickets  to  her 
show  al  830pm  on 
March  II. 

•  AMONG  London 
shops  opening  this 
month  is  Prada  at  44/45 
Sloane  Street  London 
SW1.  A  short  bos  ride 
away  al  79  Elizabeth 
Street  London  W1  is  the 
jeweller  Reema 
Pacha  chi's  new  shop. 
Known  for  her  worts 
with  semi-precious 
stones  and  covetable 
pieces  in  silvei*  and  gold, 
prices  are  from  £35  and 
bespoke  commissions 
are  welcomed. 

•  LIBERTY  is  confident 
of  further  success  for 
Reynold  Pearce  and  An¬ 
drew  Fionda.  whose  first 
collection  last  October 
was  highly  praised.  The 
London  department 
store  is  sponsoring 
Pearce  Fionda’s 
autumn/  winter  catwalk 
show  which  will  be 
shown  next  month  in¬ 
store. 

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Above:  JASPER  CONRAN:  Short  black  crepe  ha  Her- neck 
corset-front  dress,  £278 

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THE  TIMES  WEDNESDAY  FEBRUARY  22 1995 


Alan  Coren 


■  Something  missing? 
Well  soon  sketch  in 
something  suitably  inept 


In  what !  hold  to  be  perhaps  me  most 
engaging  picture  ever  painted  by  an 
Englishman,  Mrs  Andrews  isn't  holding 
anything  at  all.  She  is  perched  on  an  iron 
bench  against  which  her  new  hubbie  is 
possessively  tolling,  the  fecund  sweep  of  their 
smug  prosperity  rolling  bucolically  beyond, 
with  her  lapped  hands  clearly  in  the  holding 
position,  but  empty. 

That  is  because  Thomas  Gainsborough 
did  not  finish  the  job,  ever  since  when  critics 
have  been  fretting  over  what  she  would  have 
been  holding  if  he  had;  but  while  a  solid 
body  of  opinion  insists  that  it  would  have 
been  the  solid  body  of  a  pheasant,  this  is  by 
no  means  certain,  and  it  is  that  very  uncer¬ 
tainty  which  is  so  engaging.  For  Gainsbor¬ 
ough  was  ever  a  sly  cryptographer,  and  it  is 
not  impossible  that  Mrs  Andrews  might 
have  wound  up  holding  a  bottle  of  gin.  or  a 
catapult,  or  a  slide  trombone,  with  all  that 
these  implied,  and  since  I  relish  the 
boundless  speculation  that  the  artist,  willy- 
nilly.  has  left  us.  you  will  appreciate  my 
irritation  at  the  thought  that  if  the  BBC  got 
its  hands  on  the  picture.  Mrs  Andrews 
would  be  holding  either  a  horse-pistol  to 
forestall  her  husband’s  having  his  way  with 
her.  or  a  letter  from  a  well-wisher  revealing 
that  if  push  came  literally  to  shove,  he  would 
rather  have  his  way  with  the  Blue  Boy,  any¬ 
how.  That  is  because  die  BBC  has.  as  you 
know,  a  mission  to  explain. 

Sunday  viewers  will  twig  that  we  have 
now  fetched  up  at  The  Buccaneers,  a  novel 
left  so  unfinished  by  Edith  Wharton  as  to 
have  given  the  BBC  no  option  but  to  fall 
upon  it  and  explain  it  to  the  last  squeak  and 
gibber,  thereby  depriving  this  ham-fisted 
minor  work  of  any  subtlety  h  might  have  de¬ 
rived  from  being  unfathomable.  Further¬ 
more,  by  doing  what  its  script  department  is 
bad  at.  the  BBC  has  subverted  what  its  cos¬ 
tume  department  is  good  at  77re  Buccaneers 
is  about  soft  furnishings:  h  is  about  the  soft 
furnishings  you  find  in  big  houses  and  die 
even  softer  furnishings  you  find  on  big 
women,  and  the  proper  pleasure  to  be  deri¬ 
ved  from  the  farrago  is  vested  exclusively  in 
these:  the  last  distraction  any  of  us  needs  is  a 
spatchcock  plot  so  convoluted  as  to  leave  die 
brain  rolling  around  in  the  head  like  a 
marble  in  a  soup-plate. 


Unless,  of  course,  we  were  encouraged 
to  convolute  things  for  ourselves.  I 
see  that  you  are  there  before  me.  but 
were  you  also  there  before  me  when  we  first 
heard  that  the  BBC  was  to  bring  an  unfinish¬ 
ed  Edith  Wharton  novel  to  the  screen,  especi¬ 
ally  as  neither  of  us  knew,  admit  it,  quite  how 
unfinished  it  might  be?  Did  you,  that  is.  cry 
out  “Wow!  At  fist,  a  major  breakthrough, 
they  are  doing  an  unfinished  costume  serial, 
ace.  brilliant,  it  is  not  like  Chuzzlewit.  it  is  not 
like  Middle  march,  we  shall  not  have  to  sit 
there  week  after  worthy  week  while  an  over¬ 
familiar  narrative  plods  to  its  known  end, 
affording  only  such  scant  fillips  as  the 
anachronistic  glimpse  of  a  Yale  scutcheon  or 
a  capped  incisor,  we  shall  instead  become  a 
part  of  the  unfinished  whole,  we  shall  be 
plunged  into  the  interactive  hurly-burly,  we 
shall  be  left  to  imagine,  to  speculate,  to  work 
things  out  for  ourselves,  to  argue  with  our 
loved  ones  and  workmates  and  dinner 
guests,  we  shall  be  encouraged  to  interfere  in 
a  classic  work  in  order  to  create  our  own.  we 
shall  all  be  Tom  Stoppards!"? 

I  know  that  that  is  what  1  cried  out  which 
is  why  I  am  so  bitterly  disappointed  that  the 
BBC  should  have  thrown  so  golden  an  op¬ 
portunity  so  wantonly  away.  Not  only  would 
the  enterprise  have  been  enormous  fun  in  it¬ 
self,  it  would  have  generated  innumerable 
collateral  rewards  to  the  hard-pressed  Beeb: 
think,  if  nothing  else,  of  the  myriad  capti¬ 
vating  sequels  a  nationwide  viewers'  big 
cash  prizes  competition  might  have  brought, 
particularly  if  the  entrants  were  required  to 
conform  to  the  ideological  recommendations 
of  the  Programme  Strategy  Review,  oh.  look, 
Lizzie  has  married  Rab  C.  Nesbitt.  Sir 
Helms  ley  Thwaite  has  run  off  with  Lenny 
Henry,  the  Dowager  Duchess  of  Trevenick  is 
leading  a  march  of  differently -a  bled  Grouse 
Rights  activists  on  Castle  Howard . . . 

It  is  not  too  late.  If  the  BBC  would  only 
chuck  away  the  remaining  two  episodes  and 
leave  it  to  us.  its  flagging  fortunes  might  yet 
be  restored. 


A  policy 
based  on 
envy  < 


i  a  hour  is  wrong  to 
attack  a  deserved 


bonus,  savs  James 
Bartholomew 


To  be  honest,  there  is  no  salary  of 
which  we  all  wholeheartedly  ap¬ 
prove  except  one  lower  than  our 
own.  That  is  why  most  of  us  wffl  not 
particularly  enjoy  the  thought  of  Lord 
Alexander  -  a  man  whose  very  name 
shows  him  to  be  particularly  successful 
already  —  receiving  a  bcaius  of  about 
£100,000  for  his  work  as  chairman  of 
National  Westminster  Bank.  T- 
Kenumeratkm  higher  thaivour  own 
is  thoroughly  upsetting.  Worse  titan 
that  it  is  insulting.  It  suggests 
that  some*  other  chap  is  .  more  highly 
valued  than  we  are  ourselves.  If  you 
and  I  were  joint  dictators  of  Britain, 
we  could  agree  that  salaries  higher  than 
our  own  would  be  illegal.  Perhaps 
punishable  by  some  horrible  torture. 
And  frankly  l  would  prefer  it  if  m±. 
salary  could  be  just  that  little  bit  higher 
than  yours. 

So  t  can  well  understand  that 
Mr  Gordon  Brown,  the  Shadow  Chan¬ 
cellor  of  the  Exchequer,  is  infuriated 
by  the  pay  of  Lord  Alexander.  And 
Mr  Brown  has  an  extra  reason  for  being 
outraged:  politically  Mr  Brown  has 
already  done  well  out  of  such  anger. 
He  has  been  successfully  disgusted 
at  the  pay  packages  of  water  com¬ 
pany  bosses.  He  has  been  triumphantly 
appalled  by  the  awesome,  salary  of 
Cedric  Brown,  the  chief  executive  of 
British  Gas.  And  as  a  result  of  his 
repeated  shows  of  revulsion  he  has 
found  himself  wanting  debates  on  radio 
and  television. 

In  verbal  combat,-- the ;  defenders 
of  capitalism  have  found  it  diffi¬ 
cult  to  explain  why  a  water  company 
executive  previously  happy  to  work 
in  the  state  sector  lor,  say,  £50.000 
should  become  worth  £150.000  after 
privatisation. 


Squaring  Ulster’s  circle 


I  was  wrong  in  December  1993 
about  John  Major’s  Ulster  initia¬ 
tive.  He  has  achieved  more  in  a 
year  of  patient  but  intensive  diplo¬ 
macy  than  any  of  his  predecessors  in  a 
quarter  of  a  century.  The  gambit  of 
enticing  die  IRA  into  a  ceasefire,  without 
inducing  an  upsurge  in  Unionist  vio¬ 
lence,  has  worked  for  longer  than 
anyone  expected.  The  entrapment  of 
Du,blin  politicians  in  the  Ulster  morass 
has  been  achieved.  All  who  dismissed 
the  1993  Downing  Street  declaration  as 
the  work  of  naive  ingenues  must  eat  at 
least  some  of  their  words.  Mr  Major 
may  be  an  ingenue,  but  he  has  given 
Ulster  a  taste  of  peace,  a  glimpse  of  what 
could  be.  He  deserves  congratulation. 

That  was  not  "the  easy  part":  it  was 
difficult  But  it  was  nothing  like  as 
difficult  as  what  happens  now.  Today’s 
publication  of  the  framework  document 
and  devolution  plan  for  the  Province 
reopens  the  question  that  has  lain  on  the 
table  at  Stormont  since  1972.  How  can 
you  many  Catholic  aspirations  to 
Unionist  insecurities?  The  document  for 
all  its  razzle,  is  merely  yet  another 
consultation  proposal,  the  latest  of 
dozens  of  such  proposals.  The  circle  is 
not  squared  True  there  is  a  nip  of  peace 
in  the  ain  the  two  sides  have  played 
football  in  no  man’s  land  for  a  year.  But 
who  can  tell  when  or  whether  they  will 
return  to  their  trenches? 

The  question  for  the  sceptics  of  V3  is 
whether  to  tear  up  their  gloomy  predic¬ 
tions  and  join  the  Downing  Street 
cheering,  or  whether  to  stick  it  out. 
joining  Conor  Cruise  O'Brien  at  the  end 
of  the  bar.  On  this  page  yesterday,  Dr 
O’Brien  invited  us  to  have  another  wail. 
He  pointed  out  as  he  has  been  doing  for 
much  of  his  life,  that  there  is  an  un¬ 
bridgeable  cultural  diride  separating 
Catholics  from  Unionists  in  Northern 
Ireland  The  Catholics  want  some 
formal  link  with  the  South  and  have 
fought  for  it  for  75  years.  The  Unionists 
want  no  such  link  and  have  fought 
against  it  for  75  years.  You  can  have 
declarations,  agreements,  frameworks, 
even  treaties:  they  are  so  much  Irish 
mist.  As  for  the  idea  of  "solving 
Northern  Ireland"  by  interminable  ne¬ 
gotiation  between  Dublin  and  London, 
says  Dr  O'Brien,  “that  can  lead  nowhere 
except  to  a  renewal  of  the  conflict". 

I  have  long  been  a  signed-up  member 
of  the  O'Brien  persuasion.  But  I  feel  Mr 
Major's  actions  over  the  past  year  at 
least  give  him  the  right  to  be  heard.  His 
strategy  is  intriguing,  some  would  say 


So  far,  the  Northern  Ireland  gamble  is 
paying  off  despite  the  odds  —  but 
Major  should  trust  to  local  government 


cunning.  The  British  Government's 
goal,  we  must  never  forger,  is  to  get  rid  of 
Northern  Ireland.  It  is  to  be  shot  of  those 
whey-faced  fanatics  who  sit  unsmiling 
on  the  benches  of  the  House  of 
Commons,  ghostly  reminders  of  the 
days  of  woad,  religious  wars  and  the 
gremlins  of  the  bog.  It  is  to  be  rid  of  the 
killings  and  bombings,  of  the  cost  of  the 
emergency  powers  and  security  and  the 
sickening  publicity  that  goes  with  sup¬ 
pressing  internal  terrorism.  If  British 
ministers  had  their  way,  the  “demo¬ 
graphic  timebomb"  in  Ulster  would  be 
advanced  by  every  means.  Unionists 
would  be  bribed  to  emigrate:  birth 

control  for  Catholics  _ 

would  be  banned. 

Students  of  Anglo-  f  * 

Irish  documents  know  %  74^ 

the  pattern  well.  Both  A  3Lw / j 
the  1985  and  1993  ini-  _ 

datives  were  devoid  of  I 
British  “claims"  to  f  //yy 
Northern  Ireland.  In  I  p  f  §/i 

1985,  any  economic  or  § 

other  sovereignty  was  ■ 
renounced.  The  only 
tie  to  Britain  was  the  balloted  wish  of  the 
majority  of  the  population.  {How  unlike 
Mr  Major's  devotion  to  the  union  with 
Scotland  any  injury  to  which  would  be  a 
"catastrophe"!)  By  1993.  the  British 
Government  was  ready  to  encourage 
Unionists  to  see  the  virtues  of  an  “all- 
Ireland"  future.  Existing  cross-border 
security  and  economic  development 
institutions  are  expected  to  blossom  into 
cross-border  j  ust-a  bout-everything. 

This  is  almost  as  if  the  IRA  had  stolen 
John  Major's  clothes,  rather  than  the 
other  way  round.  So  a  bunch  of  hood¬ 
lums  happen  to  have  the  same  policy  as 
Her  Majesty’s  Government?  Even  sin¬ 
ners  are  welcome  to  a  good  cause.  Mr 
Major's  lactic  is  to  produce  a  framework 
document  so  favourable  to  an  all- 
I  re  land  authority  that  the  IRA  wifi  hand 
over  its  arsenals  and  talk  amicably  to 
Ian  Paisley.  Pigs  have  flown,  and  IRA 
discipline  appears  to  be  holding,  if  only 
because  Gerry  Adams  has,  as  yet,  won 
more  than  his  wildest  dreams.  He  must 
be  threatened  by  jealous  militants,  who 


Simon 

Jenkins 


have  little  to  gain  from  any  peace  in 
Northern  Ireland,  and  the  pickings  of 
gangsterism  to  lose.  But  that  was  ahvays 
Mr  Major's  gamble. 

It  is  not  half  as  right  as  his  gam¬ 
ble  with  the  Unionists.  Here  Mr  Major 
hopes  that  the  seduction  of  peace  will 
induce  eveiyone,  not  least  the  former 
paramilitaries,  to  talk  about  anything 
rather  than  reverr  to  the  gun.  The  trick 
is  to  promise  nothing  that  might  acti¬ 
vate  a  Unionist  veto,  to  move  forward  by- 
stealth,  to  give  “North-South"  every 
sustenance  snort  of  sovereignty.  There  is 
a  cross-border  executive,  but  under  an 
umbrella  authority  to  which  the  states 

_  donate  sovereignty 

separately.  There  are 
tiers  and  vetoes  and 
fyi/j  locking  devices.  But 

g  §/  with  no  surrender  of 

w  m  formal  sovereignty 

'  .  _  there  should  be  no 

5/77  \  cause  for  a  Unionist 

A  veto. 

And  then  there  is 
—  Stormont,  a  new  “ad¬ 

ministrative  assem¬ 
bly"  in  which  trough  the  Unionists  will 
have  the  longest  snouts.  Get  a  devolved 
assembly  established,  says  the  British 
Government,  link  it  with  the  new  North- 
South  body  and  the  resulting  organism 
may  possibly  germinate  its  own  Irish 
character.  The  Unionists  may  not  like  to 
share  power  in  this  assembly  with 
Catholics,  but  the  alternative  they  would 
like  even  less:  yet  more  consorting 
between  London  and  Dublin.  Mean¬ 
while  the  demographic  dock  ticks  on. 
Ulster  is  running  out  of  Protestants. 


So  far  so  good  for  Mr  Major’s 
strategy.  But  at  this  point  l  start 
to  shift  uneasily  down  the  bar  in 
the  direction  of  Dr  O'Brien.  Just 
how  much  of  this  can  the  Unionists 
stand  before  they  start  storming  our? 
Remember,  storming  out  is  the  war- 
dance  of  the  Ulster  politidan.  He  may  or 
may  not  put  up  with  some  diluted 
version  of  the  North-South  framework. 
That  framework  is  mostly  fudge.  Bur  the 
assembly  is  real.  It  lies  at  the  heart  of  Mr 


Major's  Ulster  settlement-  It  is  to  run  the 
Province,  on  the  basis  of  sharing  power 
between  all  the  parties  on  all  its 
committees.  The  spoils  are  to  be  spread. 
The  old  days  are  back. 

The  old  days  were  awful.  Regional 
power-sharing  is  fool’s  gold.  It  has  never 
worked  at  Stormont,  despite  being  tried 
twice  since  1972.  As  power-sharing  will 
also  form  the  basis  for  executive  partici¬ 
pation  in  the  North-South  bodies,  the 
opportunities  for  storming  out  will  be 
legion.  This  assembly  —  politic! am  arid 
officials  alike  —  is  even  supposed  to  be 
seeking  the  “harmonisation”  of  Irish 
policy  on  health,  schools,  social  security, 
trade  and  industry.  I  cannot  think  of  a 
more  certain  redpe  for  trouble. 

The  assembly  will  have  a  Unionist 
majority-  This  majority  is  bound  to  seek 
to  impose  its  will  on  the  one-third  of  the 
Province  that  has.  under  Westminster 
direct  rule,  begun  to  develop  a  republi¬ 
can  character,  notably  Armagh,  Derry 
and  West  of  the  Bann.  Across  the  26  lo¬ 
cal  districts  of  Northern  Ireland;  a  new 
political  culture  has  grown  up,  ideally 
placed  to  capitalise  on  peace.  Had  the 
Government  had  the  courage  to  delegate 
executive  powers  to  these  districts  or  to  a 
reformed  six  counties  plus  Deny  and 
Belfast,  with  no  regional  assembly,  a  dif¬ 
ferent  settlement  might  have  been 
hatched.  Cantonment  bias  suited  divided 
communities  across  Europe,  in  Belgium 
and  Switzerland.  But  that  would  have 
meant  a  role  for  local  government  in 
Ulster,  and  Mr  Major  hates  local 
government. 

So  he  will  try  Stormont  again:  foiled, 
cantankerous,  meddling  Stormont.  This 
will  be  in  addition  to  a  North-South 
body.  In  addition  to  a  myriad  Anglo- 
Irish  councils  and  London-Dublin  sum¬ 
mits,  cross-border  authorities  and  joint 
parliamentary  gatherings.  Tiny  Ulster  is 
to  have  government  coming  out  of  its 
ears.  The  hope  is  that  such  political 
overkill  will  render  unthinkable  a  return 
to  the  gun  and  the  bomb.  I  wonder. 

Perhaps  renewed  conflict  will  be  i 
partial  and  spasmodic  Perhaps  the  new  i 
institutions  will  partly  work,  as  direct 
rule  stumbles  on  into  another  decade. 
These  are  all  gambles,  and  if  we  are 
gambling.  I  would  go  with  small-is- 
beautifoi,  with  reviving  Northern  Ire¬ 
land's  tri bally  mixed  local  councils, 
rather  than  its  unitary  Stormont.  But 
Thai  is  a  gamble  that  ill  suits  the 
centralist  culture  of  our  times.  So  with  a 
heavy  heart.  I  must  buy  Dr  O'Brien 
another  drink. 


But  in  picking  on  the  £100.000 
payment  to  Lord  Alexander.  Gor¬ 
don  Brown  has  gone  a  bonus  too 
for.  He  does  not  seem  to  have  noticed 
that  the  noble  lord  fc'not-employed  by 
one  of  the  privatised  monopolies.  Bank¬ 
ing  is  a  competitive  and  thoroughly 
difficult  business.  In  the  course  of  the 
latest  recession,  the  major  bankg  lost 
bilUomofpourMls.Theylenttoofreayin 
the  good  times  to  businesses  which  were 
not  able  to  survive  the  inevitable 
downturn.  National  Westminster  wa.^. 
one  of  these  banks.  ■  ■ 

The  survival  of  NatWest  was  never 
in  doubt  but  it  did  manage  lo  .'suffer 
•  bad  debts  of  E1&  billion  in 'a  single 
year,  1991.  It  was  particularly  embar¬ 
rassed  by  the  troubles  at  Blue  Arrow, 
and  this  led  to  the  premature  resigna¬ 
tion  of  the  previous  chairman.  Lord 
Boardman.  NatWest  needed  someone  at 
the  top  who  could  put  it  back  on  course. 
After  all,  there  is  tbe  little  matter  of 
NatWest  having  millions  of  depositors. 
The  safety  of  their  money  is  a  legitimate 
matter  of  concern. 

Lord  Alexander  has  previously 
been  an  unusually  successful  barris¬ 
ter,  capable  of  earning  sums  which 
would  make  Mr  Brown  positively  weep 
with  envy.  He  has  never  revealed  his 
income  before  he  joined  NatWest,  but  it 
seems  most  likely  that  he  took  a  pay  cut 
in  order  to  become  chairman  of 
NatWest.  And  he  took  on  much  else 
besides  the  recession. 

Banking  has  been  changing  in  recent 
years  faster  than  at  any  time  this  cen¬ 
tury.  The  economics  of  branch  banking 
have  gone  awry.  The  costs  have  risen 
faster  than  the  income.  It  has  been 
necessary  to  close  large  numbers  of 
branches  and  sack  thousands  of  staff. 
There  has  been  growing  price  com¬ 
petition  from  postal  banking.  In  the  high 
street  there  has  been  competition  from 
building  societies.  The  technology  of 
banking  has  been  changing-  NatWest  is 
currently  experimenting  with  television 
banking. 


Trouble  in  store 


HARRODS  has  another  lawsuit 
on  its  hands.  The  Knightsbridge 
store,  which  on  Monday  lost  sun¬ 
dry  goods  worth  nearly  £130.000 
to  bailiffs  acting  for  a  pre- 
prep  school  called  the  Harrodian, 
is  being  sued  by  a  firm  of  estate 
agents. 

The  Harrodian's  bailiffs  called 
to  collect  court  costs  after  Har- 

rods  failed  in  the  High  Court  to 
ban  the  school  from  using  its 
name.  Now  Savills,  the  Mayfair- 
based  estate  agent,  claims  it  is 
owed  £60,000  in  unpaid  fees  by 
ihe  department  store.  A  High 
Court  writ  has  been  issued. 

This  second  dispute  also  in¬ 
volves  the  Harrodian  School,  built 
on  a  20-acre  site  sold  by  Harrods 
in  1993.  Savills  claims  it  found 
the  buyer  of  the  site,  and  is  there¬ 
fore  due  a  fee.  Harrods  retorts 
that  this  is  nonsense  and  refuses  to 
cough  up. 

Savills  refused  to  comment  yes¬ 
terday.  but  the  estate  agent  was 
appointed  to  sell  the  property  by 
Harrods  in  1989.  The  department 
store  says  it  retained  Savills  until 
April  1991,  and  accepted  an  offer 
for  the  she  20  months  later,  in 
January  1993. 

Yesterday  both  sides  were 
awaiting  a  court  hearing.  But  I 


understand  that  Mohamed  At 
Fayed,  Harrods'  owner,  is  recon¬ 
sidering  the  land  agents  who  look 
after  his  country  estates  in  Surrey 
and  Scotland.  Both  are  currently 
managed  by  Savills. 


•  Madonna  had  wind-machine 
trouble  at  the  Brit  awards  on 
Monday  night.  The  waist-length 
wig  she  sported  to  such  effect  on 
stage  was  so  blown  about  that  she 
was  in  danger  oj  choking  on  her 
own  tresses.  Only  frantic  hand 
movements  saved  the  day. 


ish  council  chairman  Ken  Dolan. 
“The  service  is  vital."  For  cost-cut- 
ting  Clarke  too  if  he  carries  on 
with  his  cigars. 


Hosepipe  ban 


LET  US  hope  that  the  fire  sprin¬ 
klers  at  Domeywood.  Kenneth 
Clarke’s  official  country  resi¬ 
dence,  are  in  good  working  order. 
Buckinghamshire  County  Council 
wants  to  dose  the  fire  station  in 
Burnham,  the  local  village.  Cost- 
cutting  as  a  result  of  the  Trea¬ 
sury's  strictures  is  to  blame 
The  council  meets  for  a  final 
vote  ot  the  matter  tomorrow,  but 
offidal  committees  are  advising 
that  closure  of  the 200-year-old  sta¬ 
tion  is  the  only  oourse.  “We  have  a 
3 ,500-strong  petition  and  intend  to 
write  to  the  Chancellor,”  says  par- 


•  London's  Number  12  bus  route 
receives  the  award  for  Best  Route 
with  Conductors  today  from  the 
public  transport  watchdog  Lon¬ 
don  Regional  Passengers  Com¬ 
mittee.  Could  this  have  anything 
to  do  with  the  fact  that  Steven 
Norris,  the  Transport  Minister,  is 
one  of  the  “dreadful  human  be¬ 
ings r  who  uses  it? 


Cross  Church  in  Palermo  for  just 
three  weeks  when,  returning  home 
after  a  quiet  dinner  in  the  dty 
centre,  two  aspiring  young  Mafi¬ 
osi  robbed  him  of  his  wallet  at 
gunpoint 

“1  am  shaken  and  shocked  after 
what  has  happened,  and  will  be 
seeing  my  doctor  for  a  check-up 
when  l  get  home."  he  says.  “I  will 
not  be  returning  to  the  island  ever 
again." 

Last  night  Payne  advised  any 
successor  to  the  post,  which  will 
be  filled  by  the  Church  of  En¬ 
gland's  diocese  in  Europe,  to  “car¬ 
ry  no  cash,  and  stay  off  the  streets 
after  twilight”. 

As  Payne  prepared  to  leave  the 
island  for  ever,  Salvatore  Toto" 


Riina.  the  alleged  Mafia  super¬ 
boss,  went  on  rrial  charged  with 
ordering  the  murder  in  1992  of 
Judge  Giovanni  Falcone. 

Payne  admits  that  he  had  little 
success  during  his  short  stay  in 
converting  Sicilians  to  the  Angli¬ 
can  faith.  “It  is  a  bit  of  an  uphill 
struggle  when  most  are  with  the 
Mafia  or  else  devout  Roman 
Catholics." 


On  one’s  bike 


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dT\  H 


Italian  job 


SADDER  and  wiser,  the  Church 
of  England’s  man  in  Sicily  has 
left  the  island  and  vowed  never  to 
return,  after  a  violent  brush  with 
some  of  those  he  had  hoped  to  con¬ 
vert  The  Rev  Derek  Payne,  65. 
had  been  chaplain  of  the  Holy 


THE  PRINCE  OF  WALES  has  es¬ 
poused  another  green  issue:  bicy¬ 
cling.  Next  month  he  will  host  a 
reception  at  St  James’s  Palace  to 
promote  plans  for  a  5, 000-mile 
national  cyclepath  network. 

His  Royal  Highness  has  once  or 
twice  abandoned  the  Aston  Mar¬ 
tin  for  a  bike,  particularly  at  San¬ 
dringham  and  Balmoral.  But  it  is 
seldom  a  pretty  sight.  Most  com¬ 
monly  with  sons  in  tow  and  slight¬ 
ly  wobbly,  he  ventures  out  on  a 
mountain  bike  which  is  too  small. 
“Ungainly.  Not  really  what  you'd 
expect  of  a  future  king,”  says  one 
retainer. 

But  Sustrans,  the  charity  be¬ 
hind  the  network,  is  dewy-eyed, 
over  the  prospect  of  a  bicycling 
monarch:  “He’s  got  a  fine  sense  of 
balance.” 


fl-tOC/lf  fStnr- 


P  *  H*  S  Wobbly  or  regal? 


Politically,  the  banks  have  never  * 
been  out  of  the  firing  line.  They 
have  been  under  attack  for  lend¬ 
ing  too  freely  and  for  not  lending 
sufficiently,  for  making  too  much  money 
out  of  small  businesses  and  for  losing 
too  much  money  by  lending  to  small 
businesses.. 

In  the  face  of  these  and  other 
difficulties,  NatWest  announced  pre-tax 
profits  yesterday  of  £1.6  billion.  No 
one.  least  of  all  Lord  Alexander,  would 
pretend  that  this  turnaround  is  afl  down 
to  him.  But  he  played  a  part  in  it.  And 
you  might  think  that  if  ever  a  business¬ 
man  was  entitled  to  a  bonus  it  was  in 

a  case  like  this.  He  helped  to  restore 
the  fortunes  of  the  company  to  the  bene¬ 
fit  of  the  people  who  employ  him:  the 
shareholders. 

If  Mr  Brown  disapproves  even  of  this, 

then  what  exactly  is  his  policy  on  pay? 
Does  he  believe  that  no  businessman 
should  ever  get  a  substantial  sum  of 
money?  If  so,  he  is  attacking  the  heart  of 
the  whole  system;  if  so,  he  does  not 
understand  that  incentives,  ambition 
and  —  yes  —  greed  are  what  makes 
capitalism  work. 

These  encourage  well-directed  effort 
They  give  us  reasons  to  be  effective.  And 
that  in  a  nutshell,  is  why  we  in  Britain 
are  wealthy  while  those  who  lived  under 
the  socialist  regimes  of  Eastern  Europe 
were  poor. 

Does  Mr  Brown  dissent  from  this?  If 
so.  he  is  nor  a  part  of  anything  that  could 
reasonably  rail  itself  “New  Labour”. 
Rather,  he  is  indulging  his  emotions  of  Jt 
envy,  and  puffing  them  up  into  a  policy 
I  understand  the  motion  of  envy  —  1 
dare  say  I  feel  it  as  strongly  as  Mr 
Brown  —  but  envy  as  an  anti-capitalist 
policy  endangers  the  future  prosperity 
of  us  all. 


‘  R  '  ~*'r~ 


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J.-. 


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M  i 


THKYTITsdES 


PART  OF  THE  PEACE 


LETTERS  TO  THE  EDITOR 

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Today's  ulster  document  is  not  the  only  plan  available  Jobs  growth  and  Worthwhile  work  to  stop  offending 


pie  joint  framework  document  on  Ulster's 

by  John  Major  and 
John  Bruton  in  Belfast  will  end  months  of 
?peadation  and  begin  a  new  process  of 
informed  debate.  Unionists  will  claim  that 
the  plan  represents  a  step  backward  in  the 
search  for  peace;  nationalists  that  it  is  a  step 
forward,  but  only  the  first  step.  Its  success  or 
failure  will  do  much  to  establish  the  fate  of 
the  peace  process. 

Is  important,  however,  that  the  British 
ana  Irish  Governments  do  not  overburden 
the  document  with  expectation.  The  draft 
version  disclosed  in  The  Times  earlier  this 
month  was  written  in  the  assured  language 
of  apeace  treaty.  It  bore  the  stamp  of  officials 
confident  that  they  have  found  a  definitive 
formula  to  solve  an  ancient  problem.  This 
the  draft  most  certainly  did  not  offer.  It 
remains  to  be  seen  whether  today’s  final 
version  is  indeed  the  open-minded  and 
consultative  document  that  it  needs  to  be 
and  that  the  Prime  Minister  has  promised  it 
will  be. 

But  the  peace  process  now  exists  indepen¬ 
dently  of  this  single  set  of  proposals  James 
Molyneaux.  leader  of  the  Official  Unionists, 
yesterday  rejected  the  document  as  a  “UN 
charter”,  a  straitjacket  which  his  party 
would  never  willingly  don.  That  may  be  so. 
Unless  today’s  proposals  are  radically 
different  from  the  leaked  draft,  it  is  hard  to 
see  how  Mr  Molyneaux  and  his  supporters 
can  be  expected  to  sign  up  to  them.  Yet  that 
need  not  be  the  end  of  the  matter. 

Perhaps  the  most  significant  meeting  to  be 
held  since  the  Downing  Street  declaration  of 
December  1993  were  Monday’s  talks  be¬ 
tween  Mr  Molyneaux,  Ian  Paisley,  the 
leader  of  the  Democratic  Unionists,  and 
John  Hume,  the  leader  of  the  nationalist 
SDLP.  “People  assume  we  are  daggers 
drawn,  that  we  never  do  co-operate,” 
observed  Mr  Molyneaux.  Patently,  this 


assumption  is  wrong.  The  leaders  of  the 
three  main  constitutional  parties  in  the 
Nor*  may  not  agree  on  the  merits  of  Mr 
Major's  approach  but  all  are  now  committed 
to  peace.  They  realise  that  they  have  an 
opportunity  to  resolve  the  historic  dif¬ 
ferences  of  the  two  communities  and  they 
seem  reluctant  to  squander  it 

Most  Unionists,  for  example,  have  now 
accepted  the  need  for  some  form  of  power- 
sharing  in  Ulster’s  new  administrative 
assembly.  The  Protestant  community  re¬ 
sents  the  idea  of  Dublin  interfering  in  the 
affairs  of  the  Province.  But  it  increasingly 
acknowledges  the  need  to  reflect  the 
nationalist  perspective  in  its  governance. 

Only  the  most  diehard  Unionists  resent 
the  idea  of  flexible  cross-border  institutions 
taking  their  authority  from  the  assembly  to 
cooperate  with  the  South  in  areas  such  as 
tourism.  This  is  considerable  progress. 
Whatever  is  said  about  today's  document, 
the  general  trend  towards  cooperation  and 
mutual  understanding  should  not  be  under¬ 
estimated.  It  remains  highly  likely  that  the 
Unionists  will  attend  the  new  talks,  if  only  to 
put  forward  their  own  agenda. 

In  The  Times  yesterday.  Conor  Cruise 
O’Brien  argued  wisely  that  “the  concept  of 
negotiations  between  Dublin  and  London 
leading  to  agreement  inside  Northern 
Ireland  is  flawed”.  Diplomats  on  the 
mainland  or  in  the  Republic  cannot  possibly 
resolve  the  problems  that  have  bedevilled 
the  North  for  centuries.  One  of  the  gravest 
errors  of  Anglo-Irish  policy  in  the  past  ten 
years  has  been  die  belief  that  they  can.  This 
approach  is  now  redundant.  The  people  of 
Ulster  are,  at  the  very  least,  to  have  their 
own  representative  forum  in  which  to  plan 
their  future.  In  this  sense,  today’s  historic 
document  is  the  last  gesture  of  the  old  way  of 
doing  things.  It  is  for  the  citizens  of  Northern 
Ireland  to  deride  on  the  new. 


HOME  AND  ALONE 

Reform  of  the  pension  rules  in  divorce  is  overdue 


In  the  House  of  Lords  last  night.  Lord 
Mackay  of  Ardbrecknish,  the  Social  Security 
Minister,  accepted  that  the  Government 
should  reconsider  the  rights  of  divorced 
wives  to  a  share  in  their  husbands’  pensions. 
He  made  this  undertaking  after  a  rebellion 
by  Conservative  peers.  Under  present  rules 
a  married  woman  who  has  devoted  most  of 
her  adult  life  to  raising  a  family  and  running 
a  home  can  too  often  find  herself  in  a 
pauperised  old  age  after  divorce. 

When  a  married  man’s  job  provides  him 
with  a  pension,  the  security  that  it  offers  for 
his  retirement  also  covers  his  wife  and  —  in 
the  event  of  h is  death  — continues  to  provide 
lor  her  old  age.  A  husband’s  contributions  to 
a  pension  scheme  come  out  of  the  household 
income  and  are  assumed  at  the  time  to  be 
providing  for  the  future  of  both  partners. 
But  when  a  couple  divorce,  that  asset  is  not 
counted  as  part  of  their  joint  wealth.  The 
income  that  was  planned  for  their  retire¬ 
ment  becomes  the  sole  property  of  the  man. 

As  a  consequence,  many  divorced  women 
who  offered  years  of  practical  and  emotional 
support  to  the  men  with  whom  they  shared 
an  affluent  lifestyle  find  themselves  left  with 
only  a  state  pension.  This  is  now  sometimes 
justified  on  the  ground  that  the  man’s 
pension  is  a  fair  exchange  for  the  matri¬ 
monial  home  which  is  most  often  awarded 
to  the  wife.  In  response  it  is  argued  that  a 
professional  man’s  pension  is  often  worth 
more  than  his  home.  The  real  point 
however,  is  not  whether  a  pension  is  worth 
more  or  less  than  the  marital  home,  but 
whether  the  value  of  both  should  be  taken 
into  account  in  the  apportionment  of  assets 
in  a  divorce,  which  must  always  be  agreed 
or  decided  by  the  courts  case  by  case. 

In  a  ground-breaking  judgment  in  1993, 
the  High  Court  ruled  that  the  pension 


scheme  of  Douglas  Brooks  should  be  altered 
to  make  provision  for  his  divorced  wife.  Mr 
Brooks  took  that  derision  to  the  Court  of 
Appeal  which  upheld  the  ruling  of  die  High 
Court.  He  is  now  carrying  his  fight  to  the 
House  of  Lords  where  his  case  will  be  heard 
later  this  year.  If  the  Lords  support  the 
findings  of  the  lower  courts,  a  precedent  will 
be  set  which  will  doubtless  unleash  thou¬ 
sands  of  similar  claims. 

This  is  an  area  of  injustice  in  which  the 
Government  should  take  a  lead.  It  is  unfair 
that  a  woman  who  has  committed  herself  to 
family  life  on  the  expectation  that  her  future 
financial  security  would  be  provided  for 
should  have  no  stake  in  a  pension  scheme. 
Even  a  working  wife  may  have  had  less  opp¬ 
ortunity  to  build  up  an  adequate  pension 
since  her  employment  pattern  is  more  likely 
to  have  been  disrupted  by  family  res¬ 
ponsibilities.  It  would  also  be  unfair,  how¬ 
ever,  if  settlements  agreed  long  in  the  past 
were  reopened  to  take  account  of  the  new 
attitude  to  pensions. 

The  Government  may  fear  the  kind  of 
noisy  backlash  from  middle-class  divorced 
men  which  the  Child  Support  Agency 
produced.  One  way  to  mitigate  such  protests 
would  be  to  avoid  the  retrospective  applica¬ 
tion  of  any  new  rules  to  arrangements 
already  agreed  or  settled  by  the  courts. 
Altering  arrangements  in  such  a  sensitive 
area  of  social  policy  is  bound  to  be 
controversial  and  to  create  some  anomalies 
in  the  short  term.  But  the  aim  of  policy 
should  be  dear.  Men  should  be  discouraged 
from  thinking  that  they  can  slough  off 
financial  responsibility  for  their  firsr  fam¬ 
ilies  through  divorce.  Any  reform  that 
makes  divorce  more  expensive  —  and  thus 
more  unattractive  —  should  be  embraced  by 
a  Government  which  supports  family  life. 


STUDENT  POWER 

There  is  a  new  player  in  Afghanistan’s  Great  Game 


An  Islamic  New  Model  Army — the  Taleban 
—  is  now  encamped  on  the  outskirts  of 
Kabul,  poised  to  capture  the  Afghan  capital 
from  the  forces  of  President  Rabbam.  These 
student-crusaders,  who  now  control  a  third 
of  Afghanistan,  are  driven  both  by  an 
energetic  devotion  to  the  Koran  and  a 
revulsion  for  the  mujahidin  groups  who 
have  heaped  such  ruin  on  the  people  of  their 
country.  After  their  recent  and  spectacular 
advances,  the  patchwork  peace  plan  stitched 
together  by  a  despairing  United  Nations  is 
nSv  almost  as  tattered  as  the  country  for 
which  it  was  conceived. 

/SSianistan.  once  the  Cold  War’s ^notive 

theatre,  has  for  some  years  been  left  to  its 
own  destructive  devices.  The  variety  of  pol¬ 
itical  and  military  alliances  that  have  been 
made  and  unmade  —  each  new  one  as  mer 
cufffal  asthe  last — has  ^J^der^  observere 
just  as  the  carnage  hasdone.  Into  this  tribal 
Samel  house  —  and  obhviousthat  the 
SS™  has  always  loathed  interfere**  - 
has  attempted  from  time  to  time  to 
Sate  a  settlement.  .The  latest  attempt 

Mestin,  ppears  seem  churlish  to 

to  repro- 


rise  of  this  army  of  students.  Although  the 
disparate  mujahidin  groups  seem  prepared 
to  accept  with  the  advance  of  the  Taleban, 
the  UN's  power-sharing  compromise,  these 
groups  now  have  considerably  less  power  to 
share.  The  Koranic  legions,  not  surprisingly, 
are  bent  on  denying  any  political  oxygen  to 
the  groups  which  they  regard  as  “criminal”, 
“locusts",  “unlslamic”  and  “degenerate”  — 
to  use  but  a  few  epithets  employed  by  their 
articulate  spokesman.  Mullah  Booijan. 

Mr  Mestiri  held  talks  with  the  leaders  of 
the  Taleban  (few  of  whom  are  readily  ident¬ 
ifiable)  in  an  attempt  to  sign  them  up  for  the 
new  council  in  Kabul.  As  preconditions,  the 
special  envoy’s  interlocutors  demanded 
control  of  the  capital  for  their  forces,  an 
Islamic  government  and  a  restriction  of 
seats  on  the  council  to  “good  Muslims”.  This 
last  demand  is  tantamount  to  a  rhetorical 
rebuff:  the  Taleban  crusade  against  Mr 
Rabbani’s  Government  and  every  other 
group  in  the  country  is  predicated  on  the 
belief  that  the  land  needs  to  be  cleansed 
afresh  for  the  return  of  a  pure  Islam. 

However  unappealing  the  Taleban  —  and 
the  prospect  of  a  state  run  by  students  of 
Islamic  theology  —  may  be  id  the  West,  it  is 
now  entirely  appropriate  for  the  UN  to 
abandon  its  present,  and  obsolete,  peace 
plan  for  Afghanistan.  Just  as  it  is  important 
for  the  UN  to  know  when  to  intervene  in  a 
civil  war,  so  too  is  it  important  for  the 
organisation  to  know  when  to  retreat.  The 
UN  can  do  nothing,  at  present,  for  Kabul. 


a  minimum  wage 

From  Mr  Denis  MacShane. 

MP  for  Rotherham  {Labour) 

Sir,  The  junior  employment  minister, 
Phillip  Oppenheim,  asserts  that  a 
minimum  wage  has  a  negative  effect 
cm  toe  economies  of  other  countries 
fleeter,  February  16).  He  is  wrong.  Be¬ 
tween  1980  and  1990.  nine  countries 
with  a  statutory  minimum  wage  had  a 
higher  rale  of  growth  in  employment, 
according  to  the  OECD,  than  toe  UK: 
the  United  States.  Canada.  Japan. 
Australia,  Spain,  Greece,  The  Nether¬ 
lands.  Luxembourg  and  Portugal. 

Between  1979  and  1993  annual 
economic  growth  in  the  UK  was  on 
average  1.7  per  cent.  This  is  slower 
than  any  other  Group  of  Seven  or  EU 
country  with  a  legal  minimum  wage. 
Mr  Oppenheim  refers  to  the  very  tow 
level  of  toe  United  States  minimum 
wage;  yet  that  wage;  of  £3  an  hour 
{which  President  Clinton  has  just 
proposed  raising),  would  be  of  very 
great  benefit  in  my  constituency  of 
Rotherham,  where  wages  of  £2  an 
hour  are  common. 

Mr  Oppenheim.  in  aparliamentaiy 
answer  to  me  last  December,  reveled 
that  one  manual  worker  in  six  earns 
£150  per  week  or  less  and  one  woman 
in  four  in  manual  jobs  has  gross  pay 
of  under  £132  a  week.  These  are  the 
new  working  poor.  Taxpayers  have  to 
subsidise  the  employers  of  the  work¬ 
ing  poor  by  way  of  the  benefits  sys¬ 
tem.  Quite  how  a  massive  taxpayers’ 
subsidy  paid  fay  the  State  to  low-pay 
firms  squares  with  Conservative  eco¬ 
nomic  theory  which  opposes  state 
hand-outs  to  companies  is  for  Tory 
ministers  to  answer. 

The  case  for  a  minimum  wage  was 
pur  forward  by  Winston  Churchill  in 
1909.  when  he  declared  in  Parliament: 
It  is  a  serious  national  evil  that  any  class  of 
His  Majesty*  subjects  should  receive  less 
than  a  living  wage  in  return  for  their  ut¬ 
most  exertions  ...  Where  you  have ...  no 
organisation,  no  parity  of  bargaining,  the 
good  employer  is  undercut  by  the  bad.  and 
the  bad  employer  is  undercut  by  the  worst; 
...  where  those  conditions  prevail  you  have 
not  a  condition  of  progress,  bur  a  condition 
of  progressive  degeneration. 

Today  we  are  a  long  way  from  such 
“One  Nation"  values,  and  it  is  to  be 
doubted  that  the  contemporary  Con¬ 
servative  Party  is  capable  of  ever  ret¬ 
urning  to  them.  But  in  their  efforts  to 
drive  more  and  more  working  people 
into  poverty  employment  ministers 
should  not  misquote  international 
data,  most  of  which  show  that  forms 
of  minimum  wage  systems  coexist 
with  higher  employment  and  econ¬ 
omic  growth  than  the  UK  has  man¬ 
aged  on  average  since  1979. 

Yours  truly. 

DENIS  MacSHANE, 

House  of  Commons. 

February  16. 


From  Mr  Alan  Taylor 

Sir.  Your  leading  article  (February  15) 
on  the  Employment  Policy  Institute’s 
report  on  unemployment  and  crime 
says  that  the  Home  Office  would 
disagree  with  Dr  John  Wells’s  central 
claim  that  crime  levels  can  be  linked 
to  toe  state  of  toe  labour  market  Yet 
Home  Office  guidance  to  all  proba¬ 
tion  services  last  year  said: 

The  aim  ...  is  to  assist  services  in 
improring  the  employment  prospects  of  all 
offenders  ...  Research  studies  emphasise 
that  offenders  can  more  successfully  be 
rchabffi  cared  and  kept  from  further  re¬ 
offending  if  they  are  helped  into  employ¬ 
ment.  education  or  job-relaied  training. 

This  trust  would  not  condone  or  ex¬ 
cuse  crime,  and  we  do  not  argue  that 
any  groups  are  "predisposed”  to 
commit  crime.  We  simply  state  that 
measures  to  increase  employment 
and  reduce  poverty  are  essential  to 
reduce  the  overall  level  of  offending. 
Surely  the  really  perverse  morality  in 
modem  Britain  is  one  that  deems 
unemployment  to  be  a  price  worth 
paying  in  the  control  of  inflation. 

Yours  faithfully, 

ALAN  TAYLOR 

(Director  of  Polity  Development), 
Apex  Trust,  St  Alphage  House. 
Wingate  Annexe,  2  Fore  Street.  EC2. 
February  15. 

From  Mr  fan  Paul 

Sir,  “Every  crime  is  the  result  of  a 
moral  derision  to  commit  it"  (your 
leader  sub-heading)  but  it  is  also  the 
result  of  a  complex  of  moral  decisions 
by  those  in  power.  It  is  almost  self- 


Asyium  applications 

From  Mr  Barry  Stoyle 
and  others 

Sir,  The  Home  Secretary.  Michael 
Howard,  has  announced  that  addi¬ 
tional  resources,  costing  £37  million, 
are  to  be  made  available  for  the  faster 
processing  of  asylum  applications 
(report,  February  16).  Whilst  we  wel¬ 
come  any  moves  which  will  increase 
efficiency  in  toe  resolution  of  appli¬ 
cations  for  asylum,  we  are  concerned 
that  no  additional  resources  have 
been  made  available  for  representing 
asylum  seekers. 

Only  limited  funding  is  available 
for  legal  representation  at  asylum  ap¬ 
peal  hearings.  This  is  channelled  prin¬ 
cipally  through  the  Refugee  Legal 
Centre.  No  legal  aid  is  available,  and 
consequently  there  is  an  acute  short¬ 
age  of  competent  representatives. 

Derisions  on  asylum  applications 
can  literally  be  a  matter  of  life  and 
death,  and  new  fast-track  procedures 
mean  that  asylum  applicants  can  be 
removed  within  days.  It  is  essential 
that  applicants  are  properly  repre- 


Getting  into  Oxford  Rain  and  sewers 


From  Dr  G.  D.  W.  Smith 

Sir,  Dr  J.  S.  Rowett,  of  Brasenose  Col¬ 
lege  (letter,  February  14),  accuses  me 
of  “misplaced  social  engineering"  for 
wanting  to  abolish  the  Oxford  en¬ 
trance  examination.  Oh  dear!  I  had  no 
idea  that  such  a  heinous  crime  existed. 

Our  colleagues  in  Cambridge,  who 
effectively  abolished  their  own  exam¬ 
ination  a  decade  or  so  ago.  must  be 
mortified  to  discover  the  error  of  their 
ways.  And  as  for  the  other  186  univer¬ 
sities  and  colleges  of  higher  education 
listed  in  the  current  UCAS  (Universit¬ 
ies  and  Colleges  Admissions  Service) 
handbook  —  which  either  never  had 
an  entrance  examination  of  their  own 
or  abolished  it  aeons  ago  —  well,  one 
wouldn’t  like  even  to  mention  than  in 
polite  company,  would  one? 

The  uncomfortable  truth  is  that 
those  responsible  for  “social  engineer¬ 
ing”,  as  Dr  Rowett  puts  it,  are  actually 
the  people  who  for  generations  have 
set  non-standard  examinations  at 
non-standard  times,  and  thus  made  it 
extremely  difficult  for  state  school 
pupils  to  apply  to  Oxford. 

Yours  sincerely, 

GEORGE  SMITH. 

Trinity  College,  Oxford, 

February  16. 


Word  imperfect 

From  Baroness  Thomas 
of  Walliswood 

Sir,  Last  Friday  I  received  some 
papers  covering  toe  1994-95  appoint¬ 
ment  exercise  for  lay  members  of  in¬ 
dustrial  tribunals.  The  papers  explain 
that  “Each  tribunal  normally  consists 
of  a  legally  qualified  Chairman*  and 
two  lay  members  . . A  note  at  the 
bottom  of  the  page  reads:  “*The  term 
Chairman  is  derived  from  the  legisla¬ 
tion  governing  toe  tribunals;  it  applies 
equally  to  men  and  women."  The 
papers  go  on  to  stress  the  importance 
of  recruiting  suitably  qualified 
women. 

It  seems  to  me  that  when  language 
is  so  confusing  or  potentially  damag¬ 
ing  that  an  18- word  justification  is 
required  for  a  single  word,  then  that 
language  is  demonstrably  out  of  date. 

On  leaving  Oxford  University  in 
1957  I  considered  learning  to  type  at 
the  Air  Ministry  (as  it  then  was)  bec¬ 
ause  they  paid  their  trainees.  The  ap¬ 
plication  form  required  me  to  state 
“whether  I  had  ever  been  a  member  of 
any  fascist*  party".  A  note  at  toe  bot¬ 
tom  of  the  page  read:  “•For  fascist 
read  fascist  or  communist”. 

I  rest  my  case. 

Yours  sincerely. 

SUSAN  THOMAS, 

House  of  Lords. 

February  1Z 


From  Mr  A.  E.  Jones 

Sir,  The  recent  wet  spell  has  resulted 
in  a  substantial  increase  in  the  quan¬ 
tities  of  effluent  entering  die  combined 
sewerage  system  at  my  bouse  (letter, 
February  21).  The  resultant  volumes 
have,  however,  been  most  welcome  as 
both  domestic  sewage  and  rainwater 
run-off  are  trickled  through  a  series  of 
reed  beds,  which  in  turn  filter  the 
effluent  This  supplies  a  large  pond 
with  sparkling  water  and  toe  con¬ 
sequence  is  a  highly  attractive  wet 
area  where  fish  and  moorhens  breed. 


Qualifications  abroad 

From  Sir  John  Hanson. 
Director-General 
of  the  British  Council 

Sir,  Edward  Fennell,  writing  in  your 
supplement  on  the  National  Council 
for  Vocational  Qualifications  (Feb¬ 
ruary  16).  is  right  to  print  out  that 
British  qualifications  are  still  valued 
across  the  world  and  to  recognise  the 
potential  export  value  of  overseas 
purchasers  holding  British  qualifica¬ 
tions.  They  are,  as  he  says,  already 
half-way  to  being  persuaded  to  buy 
British. 

These  are  the  longer  term  benefits 
—  winning  friends  and  influence  and 
ultimately  trade  for  Britain.  But  ex¬ 
porting  British  education  is  not  just 
about  the  future.  Education  and  train¬ 
ing  exports  currently  earn  Britain 
over  £4  billion  per  annum. 

In  an  agreement  worth  £250.000  to 


evident  that  economic  and  social  cir¬ 
cumstances  affect  the  level  of  crime; 
anyone  who  has  lived  in  an  urban 
area  can  tell  you  that  The  real  quest¬ 
ion  is  how  this  should  be  interpreted 
and  how  it  should  affect  policy  on  law 
and  order  and  economic  strategy. 

Contrary  to  much  that  is  said,  the 
Judaeo-Christian  tradition  does  not 
simply  privatise  morality  in  the  way 
that  your  leader  suggests.  The  Old 
Testament  prophets  repeatedly  indict 
the  political  and  religious  leaders  for 
the  state  of  the  nation.  Individuals  are 
responsible  for  their  actions,  but  also 
for  the  actions  of  others.  I  am  my  bro¬ 
ther's  keeepen  those  more  likely  to 
commit  crime  are  my  neighbours. 

The  right  interpretation  of  the 
research  by  Dr  John  Wells  is  not  that 
criminals  are  less  responsible,  but 
that  those  who  determine  policy  are 
more  responsible  —  along  with  those 
who  elecr  them.  Individual  account¬ 
ability  for  crime  only  makes  sense 
when  it  is  allied  to  a  wider  responsib¬ 
ility  which  many  in  government  seem 
unable  or  unwilling  to  shoulder. 

Yours  faithfully. 

IAN  PAUL. 

44  Kingston  Road,  Poole,  Dorset 

From  Mr  David  Bailey 

Sir.  The  idea  of  a  link  between  crime 
and  unemployment  goes  back  much 
further  than  a  “century  and  a  half. 
Remember  that  “Satan  finds  work  for 
idle  hands”. 

Yours  faithfully, 

DAVID  BAILEY. 

29  Elgin  Crescent  Wll. 


sented.  otherwise  miscarriage  of  jus¬ 
tice.  with  potentially  fatal  consequen¬ 
ces.  may  occur. 

A  report  commissioned  by  the 
Home  Office  and  the  Lord  Chancel¬ 
lor's  Department  says  that  in  order  to 
increase  efficient  handling  of  asylum 
applications,  all  parts  of  the  system 
must  have  increased  resources.  This 
must  include  resources  for  asylum  ap¬ 
plicants’  representatives,  through  an 
extension  of  legal  aid  and  the  adequ¬ 
ate  funding  of  voluntary  organisa¬ 
tions,  if  the  odds  are  not  to  be  unac¬ 
ceptably  stacked  against  asyhim- 
seekers. 

Yours  faithfully. 

BARRY  STOYLE 
(Director.  Refugee  Legal  Centre). 
NICHOLAS  BLAKE 
(Chair.  Immigration  Law 
Practitioners'  Association). 

RUTH  BUNDEY 

(Chair.  Law  Society  Immigration  Law 
Sub-Caramittee). 

Refugee  Legal  Centre. 

Sussex  House, 

39-45  Bermondsey  Street,  SE1. 
February  17. 


I  advocate  toe  use  of  treatment 
systems  such  as  this  on  a  larger  scale. 
They  provide  a  multitude  of  advan¬ 
tages  in  that  they  reduce  the  burden 
on  municipal  systems,  generate  ame¬ 
nity,  improve  landscape  diversity  and 
contribute  to  the  fight  against  the  loss 
of  wetland  habitat 
As  well  as  these  points,  my  water 
rates  are  reduced. 

Yours  faithfully, 

ALAN  JONES, 

Teapond  House, 

Green  Farm. 

Littlebury  Green,  Essex. 

February  21. 


the  UK  Mexico  is  developing  compet¬ 
ency-based  qualifications  in  engin¬ 
eering  maintenance,  in  manufacture 
and  in  training.  Oman  is  another  suc¬ 
cess  story  that  proves  the  British  sys¬ 
tem  is  exportable:  as  part  of  its  policy 
to  replace  expatriate  workers  with 
nationals,  the  Government  has  deci¬ 
ded  to  use  British  GNVQs  in  the  train¬ 
ing  programme  for  school-leavers. 

The  British  Council  helped  estab¬ 
lish  the  links  between  these  overseas 
governments  and  the  UK  education 
and  training  institutions.  We  are  con¬ 
vinced  of  the  export  potential  of  Brit¬ 
ish  occupational  standards.  NVQs 
and  their  Scottish  equivalents,  and 
carapetendes-based  training. 

Yours  etc, 

JOHN  HANSON, 

Director-Genera). 

The  British  Council. 

10  Spring  Gardens.  Wl. 

February  16. 


Mission  accomplished  '  Strictly  classified 


From  the  Chairman  of  the  Channel 
Tunnel  Association 

Sir.  Fifteen  months  ago  we  passed 
resolutions  to  wind  up  this  association 
—  which  was  founded  in  1963 —when 
the  Channel  Tunnel  became  fully 
operative.  We  cease  to  exist  after  our 
final  general  meeting  on  February  23 
and  hope  that  you  might  print  this  as 
our  thanks  for  all  die  material  which 
you  have  published  over  the  years  and 
as  our  congratulations  to  EurotunneL 
We  leave  behind  the  national  collec¬ 
tion  of  Channel  Tunnel  material  of 
nearly  15,000  items,  housed  at 
Churchill  College.  Cambridge,  and 
available  to  all  serious  students  and 
researchers.  Its  contents  go  back  over 
150  years. 

Yours  faithfully. 

ALAN  R.  TITCHENER. 

Chairman. 

The  Channel  Tunnel  Association, 

44  Westboume  Terrace, 

Hyde  Park.  W2. 

February  20. 


From  Mr  F.  Tomlin 

Sir.  William  Rees  Mogg*s  article  on 
Otto  Ammon’s  human  classification 
(“Society's  dicey  prospects",  February 
16)  reminds  me  of  a  “classification  of 
officers”  adopted.  I  believe,  by  the 
Prussian  General  Staff. 

All  officers  exhibit  a  combination  of 
two  out  of  four  basic  human  char¬ 
acteristics:  intelligent,  stupid,  lazy  and 
industrious.  Officers  who  are  intelli¬ 
gent  and  industrious  make  excellent 
staff  officers.  Those  who  are  intelli¬ 
gent  and  lazy  are  fit  for  die  highest 
command,  since  they  don't  get  begged 
down  in  detail  but  have  a  clear  view  of 
the  whole  battlefield.  Those  who  are 
stupid  and  lazy  can  be  safely  ignored. 
Those  who  are  stupid  ami  industrious 
must  be  identified  and  rooted  out  as 
soon  as  possible  before  they  do  irrep¬ 
arable  damage. 

Yours  sincerely. 

FRANK  TOMLIN, 

2  R  us  kin  Dene,  BiDericay,  Essex. 
February  16. 


Forgotten  anguish 
of  wartime  Hull 

From  the  Bishop  of  Hull 

Sir.  Lord  Denman  (letter.  February  18) 
rightly  asks  us  “not  to  forget  other 
non-combatants  who  lost  their  lives  in 
the  tragedy”  of  the  Second  World 
War.  Through  your  columns,  may  I 
draw  attention  to  the  innocent  victims 
of  indiscriminate  bombing,  whose 
tragedy  has  never  been  named. 

The  people  of  Hull  to  this  day  feel 
great  anguish  that  the  devastation  of 
their  city  has  never  been  recognised, 
other  in  Britain  or  in  Europe.  Pro¬ 
portionately  it  sustained  more  des¬ 
truction  than  either  London  or  Cov¬ 
entry.  Nearly  10  per  cent  of  the  city’s 
homes  were  either  destroyed  or  ser¬ 
iously  damaged,  and  only  a  few  build¬ 
ings  were  left  standing  in  the  centre  of 
the  city. 

As  well  as  targeting  the  railway, 
docks  and  industry,  the  warplanes 
would,  on  their  return  flights,  dis¬ 
charge  their  remaining  bombs  indis¬ 
criminately  over  Hull  killing  and 
maiming  thousands  of  innocent  Chil¬ 
ians. 

This  has  left  a  mark,  not  just  cm  the 
terrain,  but  on  toe  interior  landscape 
of  people’s  souls.  Hull  was  never 
named  in  the  news  bulletins,  which 
referred  to  it  simply  as  a  “town  in  toe 
North  East". 

There  is  no  way  that  the  people  of 
this  European  maritime  city  wish  to 
detract  from  toe  commemorations  of 
Dresden  and  Coventry,  but  toe  focus 
on  the  suffering  of  victims  of  indis¬ 
criminate  bombing  in  Europe  brings 
again  to  the  surface  toe  grief  of  this 
community. 

As  one  who  shares  in  the  pastoral 
care  of  this  now  modem  and  vibrant 
city,  may  I  ask  the  nation  not  to  forget 
toe  people  of  Hull  in  its  national  rem¬ 
embrance  this  year. 

Yours  faithfully, 
tJAMES  HULLEN:. 

HulJen  House.  Woodfield  Lane. 
Hessle.  North  Humberside. 

February  20. 


Promises  in  Pakistan 

From  Mr  Fronds  Beruiion 

Sir,  Having  read  with  concern  your 
leader  ,  “Insult  to  Islam”  (February 
11).  saying  that  Pakistan  is  now  threat¬ 
ening  all  religious  minorities,  in  line 
with  their  persecution  by  Islamic  fun¬ 
damentalists  in  Iran.  Sudan.  Saudi 
Arabia  and  elsewhere.  I  got  out  a 
handsome  blue  and  gold  book  pres¬ 
ented  to  me  by  toe  Government  of 
Pakistan  nearly  40  years  ago.  It  was 
the  Constitution  of  toe  new  Islamic 
republic,  which  I  had  drafted  for  them 
in  accordance  with  their  instructions. 

This  1956  Constitution  said  that 
Pakistan  should  be  a  state  “wherein 
adequate  provision  should  be  made 
for  the  minorities  freely  to  profess  and 
practise  their  religion  and  develop 
their  culture".  At  that  time  it  gave  a 
guarantee  of  “freedom  of  thought  ex¬ 
pression,  belief,  faith,  worship  and 
association.”  This  was  done 
so  that  the  people  of  Pakistan  may  prosper 
and  attain  their  rightful  and  honoured 
place  amongst  the  nations  of  the  world  and 
make  their  full  contribution  towards  inter¬ 
national  peace  and  the  progress  and  hap¬ 
piness  of  humanity. 

The  1956  Constitution  stated  that 
“every  citizen  has  the  right  to  profess, 
practise  and  propagate  any  religion”, 
and  that  “every  religious  denomina¬ 
tion  and  every  sect  thereof  has  toe 
right  to  establish,  maintain  and  man¬ 
age  its  religious  institutions”.  It  guar¬ 
anteed  the  right  to  move  the  Supreme 
Court  by  appropriate  proceedings  for 
the  enforcement  of  these  rights. 

What  has  gone  wrong? 

Yours  faithfully, 

FRANCIS  BENNION. 

54a  Nicodemou  Mylona  Street  3095, 
Limassol,  Cyprus. 

February  13. 


Wfldean  paradox 

From  Sir  Donald  Harrison. 
President.  Royal  Society  of  Mediane 

Sir,  The  death  of  Oscar  Wilde  from 
complications  of  a  middle-ear  infec¬ 
tion  (Body  and  Mind.  February  16) 
was  particularly  inopportune  in  view 
of  the  reputation  of  his  father.  Sir 
William  Robert  Wills  WDde,  as  the 
pre-eminent  ear  surgeon  of  his  day. 

Sir  William  is  best  remembered  for 
the  “Wilde"  incision,  used  to  decom¬ 
press  mastoid  infection  and  thus 
avoid  toe  sequelae  from  which  his  son 
died.  Perhaps  an  instance  of  failure  of 
a  father-son  relationship. 

Yours  sincerely. 

DONALD  HARRISON.  President. 
The  Royal  Society  of  Medicine, 

I  Wimpole  Street  Wl. 


Driven  to  distraction 

From  Mr  John  G.  Glover 

Sir.  Mr  A.  G.  Phillips  (letter,  February 
20)  queries  toe  phrase  “forward  plan¬ 
ning”.  Several  years  ago,  in  a  local 
authority  transport  department  we 
had  some  staff  tasked  with  defining 
future  policy  alternatives.  We  called 
them  the  Backward  Planning  Group, 
since  everybody  else  knew  it  was 
never  going  to  happen  anyway. 

Yours  faithfully, 

JOHN  G.  GLOVER. 

3  Northclifie  Close, 

Worcester  Park,  Surrey. 


Letters  should  cany  a  daytime 
telephone  number.  They  may  be 
faxed  to  0171-782  5046. 


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the  times 


WEDNESDAY  FEBRUARY  22  W:; 


COURT  CIRCULAR 


BUCKINGHAM  PALACE 
February  21:  Tlw  Queen  held  an 
Investiture  at  Budonghain  Palace 
this  morning.  .  ... 

Mr  Canon  Grag  was  received  by 
The  Queen  upon  his  retirement  as  a 
Gentleman  Usher  when  Her  Majesty 
conferred  upon  him  the  honour  of 
Knighthood  and  invested  him  wuh 
ihe  Insignia  of  the  Knight  Com¬ 
mander  or  the  Rqyal  Victorian  Order. 
The  Duke  of  Edinburgh.  Patron. 
British  Health  Care  Association,  this 
afternoon  presented  the  British 
Health  Care  Awards  ar  St  James's 
Palace. 

His  Royal  Highness,  Patron  and 
Trustee.  The  Duke  of  Edinburgh’s 
Award,  this  evening  gave  a  Dinner 
for  Founder  Charter  Members  ar 
Buckingham  Palace. 

The  Lady  Ellon  has  succeded  the 
Lady  Susan  Hussey  as  Lady  in 
Waiting  10  The  Queen. 

February  21:  The  Princess  Royal. 
Patron.  National  Association  of  Vic¬ 
tim  Support  Schemes,  this  morning 
attended  die  Conference  “the  In¬ 
fluence  of  the  Victims  on  the  Criminal 
Justice  Process"  at  the  Royal  Society 
of  Arts.  John  Adam  Street.  London 
WC2. 

Her  Royal  Highness  afterwards 
attended  a  Luncheon  given  by  the 
Spanish  Ambassador  in  celebration 
of  Save  the  Children  Fund  receiving 
The  Prince  of  Asturias  Prize  at  the 
Spanish  Embassy.  Beigrave  Square. 
London  SW1.  and  was  received  by  the 
Ambassador  (His  Excellency  Don 
Alberto  Aza  Arias]. 

The  Countess  of  Lichfield  was  in 
attendance. 

TFie  Princess  Royal  this  afternoon 
presented  The  Princess  Royal  Award 
for  outstanding  achievement  for  the 
benefit  of  the  United  Kingdom  dairy 
industry  at  Buckingham  Palace. 

Her  Royal  Highness.  Patron,  the 
Home  Farm  Trust,  later  attended  the 
launch  of  the  Partners  in  Care  Appeal 
at  Kingston  Guildhall.  Kingston 
upon  Thames.  Surrey. 

Mrs  Timothy  Holdemess-Roddam 
was  in  attendance. 


CLARENCE  HOUSE: 

February  21:  Mrs  Michad  Gordon- 
laum  h as  succeded  Dame  Frances 
CampbeU-Presmn  as  lady-in-Wait- 
ing  id  Queen  Elizabeth  The  Queen 
Mother. 

KENSINGTON  PALACE 
February  21:  The  Duke  of  Gloucester, 
Patron,  Nuffield  Fanning  Scholar¬ 
ships  Trust  this  morning  received 
Mr  Christopher  Older  m  relinquish¬ 
ing  die  appointment  of  Chairman  of 
the  Trust  and  Mr  Richard  Holland 
on  assuming  the  appointment. 

YORK  HOUSE 

February  21:  The  Duke  of  Kent 
Patron,  the  British  Menswear  Guild, 
this  morning  visited  Murray  Allan  of 
Innerleithen  Limited,  die  Grikum 
MilL  Innerleithen.  Fteebteshire.  and 
was  met  on  arrival  by  Her  Majesty's 
Lord-lieutenant  tor  Tweeddaie  (Cap¬ 
tain  David  Younger). 

His  Royal  Highness  this  afternoon 
visited  Ballamyne*  of  WaOcerbura 
Limited.  Tweedvale  Mill. 
Waikerbum.  Peebles  hire.  Scotland. 

Captain  Alexander  Tfetley  was  in 
attendance. 

The  Duke  of  Kent.  Patron,  the 
Royal  Television  Society,  this  evoung 
presented  the  Television  Journalism 
and  Sports  Awards,  the  London 
Hilton  on  Park  Lane.  Park  Lane. 
London  WT. 

Mr  Nicolas  Adamson  was  in 
attendance. 

The  Duchess  of  Kent.  Chancellor,  this 
morning  visited  the  University  of 
Leeds.  Leeds.  West  Yorkshire. 

Her  Royal  Highness.  President. 
Action  Research,  this  afternoon  vis¬ 
ited  the  Clarendon  Wing,  die  General 
Infirmary.  St  George^  Street.  Leeds, 
and  was  met  an  arrival  by  Her 
Majesty's  Lord- Lieutenant  for  West 
Yorkshire  (Mr  John  Lyles). 

The  Duchess  of  Kent  later  opened 
die  Variety  Club  of  Great  Britain 
Children's  Day  Hospital  and  the 
Lincoln  Wing.  St  James's  University 
Hospital.  Beckett  Street.  Leeds.  Wet 
Yorkshire. 

Mrs  Richard  Beckett  was  in 
attendance. 


Birthdays  today 

The  Duchess  of  Kent  celebrates 
her  62nd  birthday  today. 

Mr  HA  Ashmall.  Rector.  Morrison's 
Academy.  Perthshire:  56;  Sir  Roder¬ 
ick  Barclay,  diplomat.  86:  the  Hon 
James  Bethell.  racehorse  trainer.  43: 
Mr  Michael  Chang,  tennis  player.  23: 
Mr  J.N.  Ellis,  trade  unionist.  5&  Mr 
Joseph  Etxedgui.  fashion  designer.  5% 
Professor  Sir  Brian  Rtllett.  Vice- 
Chancellor.  Warwick  University.  56: 
Mr  Bruce  Forsyth,  entertainer.  67: 
Miss  Deborah  Grant,  actress.  4& 
Miss  Sheila  Hancock,  actress.  62; 
Miss  Jocelyn  Herbert,  stage  designer. 
75:  Mr  Howard  Hodgson,  former 
chief  executive.  PTC  Hodgson  Ken¬ 
yon  International.  45:  Mr  Mike 
Hollingsworth,  television  execu¬ 
tive.  4«. 

Sir  David  Jack,  pharmacologist.  71; 
Mr  Peter  Jacobs,  chief  executive. 
Bupa.  Si  Mr  Edward  Kennedy. 
.American  politician.  63:  Sir  John 
Kerr.  UK  Permanent  Representative 
to  the  European  Communities.  Brus¬ 
sels.  53;  Miss  Patricia  Lancaster. 
former  Headmistress.  Wycombe  Ab- . 
hey  SchooL  66:  Mr  Niki  Lauda, 
racing  driver.  46;  Miss  Frances  Line, 
controller.  BBC  Radio  2.  55:  Mr  Ian 
McColl.  former  Editor.  Daily  Ex¬ 
press.  80:  Sir  John  Mills,  actor, 
producer  and  director.  87;  Mr  Tom 
Okker.  tennis  player.  51;  Mr  Richard 
Pbge:  MP.  54;  Sir  Christopher  Peter¬ 
son.  former  High  Sheriff  of  South 
Glamorgan,  77;  Mr  Ni&H  Planer, 
actor.  42. 

Lieutenant-General  the  Hon  Sir  Wil¬ 
liam  Rous.  56;  Sir  William  Slack, 
former  Serjeant  Surgeon  to  The 
Queen.  70;  Mr  Ian  Stark,  show- 
jumper.  41:  Lord  Strathclyde,  35; 
Dame  Joan  Vartey.  fonner  Conser¬ 
vative  Party  agent  75;  Miss  Julie 
Walters,  actress.  45;  Mr  S.C. 
Whitbread,  former  chairman. 
Whitbread  and  Company,  58. 


School  news 

Bedales  School 

Hie  Governors  of  Bedales  School 
have  appointed  Mrs  Alison  Will- 
cocks  to  be  Head  of  Bedales  in 
succession  to  Mr  fan  Newton. 

Roedean 

Roedean  School  is  pleased  to 
announce: 

Junior  ScbotarAlps  and  Awards 

Academic  Scholarships;  Ayesha 
Nooranl.  Karachi  Grammar  School. 
Pakistan:  Rebecca  Vaughan- 
WUllams,  Ruthin  SchooL  Clwyd: 
Motly  Wan.  French  Lyatc.  London: 
Minor  Academic  Scholarships: 
Margot  Hiu-Landoit.  vtnehall 
SchooL  Robertsh ridge.  Zoe  WUlis. 
Dulwich  College  Preparatory  School. 
C ran  brook:  cressfda  watt.  French 
Lvcee.  London:  Minor  Music 
Scholarships:  Crtsiai  Downing. 
Mailman's  Green,  Gerrards  Cross: 
Lucy  Tanai-Jones.  Brighton  college 
Junior  School:  Founders'  Awards: 
Emma  Lowndes.  Chafyn  Grove. 
Salisbury:  BindJya  varma.  Bermuda 
High  SchooL 

Sixth  Form  Scholarships  and  Awards 
Scholarships:  Zoe  Brown.  Hlst- 
oiy /Chemistry.  Francesca  Delany. 
French/ Latin:  Kirsten  MacDonald 
Bennett.  Art:  Charlotte- Anne  Nelson. 
History /Physics:  Sixth  Form  Minor 
Scholarships:  Helen  Chun.  Biol¬ 
ogy  /Chemistry:  Abby  d'Arcy 
Hughes.  French:  Samantha  Gilbert. 
Latin /English;  Jacqueline  ,  King. 
English /History.  Alexandra  Undsey. 

'  "TOiO  ' 


Rachel  Stewart  Geography/  History: 
Mel  Ung  Teoh.  Business /Com pucer 
Studies;  Saeko  Yamaguchl, 
Maths/ Chemistry:  sixth  Form 
Awards:  Sara  Lawrence.  An: 
Josephine  Mai.  Music  Sarah 
Ogden.  German:  Caroline  Ortebar, 
Music;  Nicola  Rich.  Design 
Technology. 

Future  Dales 

Families  Interested  In  Roedean  are 

invited  to  our  Open  Mornings  on 

April  29  and  June  10.  when  the  new 
Roedean  Theatre  can  be  viewed.  The 

Old  Roedeanlans'  Association 

Summer  Reunion  will  he  held  at 
Roedean  on  Sunday.  April  3a 
Details  available  from  the  School  on 
0273  603181. 


Memorial 

service 

Mr  Hmnpbiy  Berkeley 
Princess  Michael  of  Kent  was 
represented  by  Mrs  Julian 
Fellows  at  a  memorial  requiem 
mass  for  Mr  Humphry  Berkeley 
celebrated  by  Father  Ronald 
Cretghfon-Jobe  yesterday  at 
Brampton  Oratory.  Sir  Peter 
Tapsell.  MP.  read  die  lesson.  Lord 
Rees-Mogg  gave  an  address.  Lord 
Wilson  of  Rievaulx,  KG,  was 
represented  by  Lady  Wilson. 
Among  those  present  were: 

Mr  and  Mis  Mfchael  UndssjMmuson 

S>rwherin-Jaw  and  ststeij.  Mrs  Jane 
usseil  (jisteri,  Mr  and  Mrs  Nigel 
poster.  Hannan  and  Katharine  Foster. 
The  Earl  of  ClanwIlUam.  the  Earl  of 
wooiton.  Lady  Butter  of  Saffron 
Walden.  Lord  Archer  of  Weston-super- 
Mare.  Baroness  Jegenuwd  Jenfcfos  of 
Hiilhead.  OM.  Lord  Prior.  Lady  Rees- 
Moge.  Lord  Richard.  QC.  Lord 
Rawlinson  of  Ewell.  QC.  Lord 
WeatherilL  Baroness  Williams  or 
Crosby.  Lord  Meriyn-Rees.  lord  Wise, 
Baroness  Faikender. 

Mr  and  Mn  Jeremy  Thorpe.  Lady 
Hordern.  Sir  Malby  Crofton,  Sfr 
Robert  Rhodes  Janies.  Sir  Robin  and 
Lady  chlchesterClarK  Lady  Bayllss. 
Sir  Dennis  Walters.  Sir  Peregrine 
worethome.  Air  Marshal  Sir  Alec  and 
Lady  Morris,  Lady  Good  hart.  Mr  Eric 
and  the  Hon  Mrs  Koops.  0C.  Mr  and 
Mrs  Anthony  Howard.  Judge  Tumlm. 
Mr  and  Mrs  Michael  Comnlnos.  Mr 


mi  WVIUIUU/I  ini  ■  -  , 

Mr  Denzil  Freeth.  Mr  and  Mis  J 
Harvey-Kelty,  Mr  Cyril  Lace.  Ms  Prue 

Leith. 

Mr  Nigel  Ryan.  Mr  Tony  speller.  Mr 
Robert  de  Stacpoole.  Mr  and  Mrs 
william  Stevens.  Mr  Temr  Slone.  Mr 
Dick  Tsvcme.  Qc.  and  Mn  Taveme. 
Mr  and  Mrs  Colin  Welch.  Mr  Tim 
wapshott.  Mr  Maurice  FltzGlbbon. 
Mr  Philip  Harwood-Smart  Mr  Giles 
Johnson.  Mr  Richard  Fe/fden.  Mr 
Colin  Harris.  Mr  Gerard  NoeL  Mr 
Richard  Ottaway.  MP,  Mr  J  Holmes. 
Mis  Ursula  Sedgwick.  Mr  Alan 
watklns.  Professor  F  M  Fowler.  Mr 
Michael  Rice.  Mrs  Michael  Wolff,  Mrs 
Jonathan  Sumption.  Dr  L  Minion,  Mr 
John  Kean.  Commander  and  Mis 
Loudoun  Campbell  MrCOiln  Crewe. 
Mrs  Flo  HunneiL 

Mr  Jim  Davidson  (founder  lire 

^16111.  Sharon  Allen  Leukaemia 
with  Dr  lain  Hanham 
(chairman  of  trustees)  and  Mrs 
Hanham.  Miss  Jennifer  Paterson  and 
other  members  of  the  trust:  Miss 
Elizabeth  Finn  and  Mrs  Maureen 
Barlow  (HolmQelds  Ward.  Chiswick 
Labour  Party!-  Mr  David  Rogers 
(Conservative  Polldcat  Centre!.  Mr 
Hugh  Pierce  (Howard  League  for 
Penal  Reform!.  Mis  Myrtel  Davies 
(United  Nations  Association).  Mr 
Philip  jagger(Malvemlan  Society).  Mr 
Keith  Ingram  (Dragon  SchooL 
Oxford).  Mr  Anthony  Grey  (Edgar 
Wrtghtf  MrPaul  Chapman  (Littlejohn 
Frozen.  Mr  Nicholas  storey  (Savlle 
Club)  and  Mr  Griffith  Vaughan 
williams  (Campaign  for  Homosexual 
Equality). 


Lady  du  Cann 

A  Service  of  Thanksgiving  for  the 
life  and  work  of  Lady  du  Cann  wifi 
be  held  in  St  Margaret's  Church. 
Westminster  Abbey,  at  noon  on 
Wednesday.  April  26.  Those  wish¬ 
ing  to  attend  are  asked  to  write  for 
tickets  to:  Tile  Assistant  Recover 
General  (Prciocol).  Room  26.  The 
Chapter  Office.  20  Dean's  Yard. 
Westminster  Abbey.  London. 
SW1P  3PA,  enclosing  a  stamped 
addressed  envelope.  Tickets  will  be 
posted  on  April  IS.  All  are 
welcome. 

Mrs  Heddy 
Simpson 

A  service  of  thanksgiving  for  the 
life  of  Heddy  Simpson  wQI  be  held 
at  St  James's.  Piccadilly-  on 

Wednesday.  March  8.  at  6.00pm. 

Professor  Paul 
Turner 

A  Service  of  Thanksgiving  for  the 
life  and  work  of  Professor  Paul 
TUrner.  CBE.  will  take  place  at 
4pm  on  Monday.  February  27.  in 
the  Priory  Church  of  St  Bartholo- 
mew-the-GreaL  West  Smithfidd. 
London.  ECJ. 


Service  luncheon 

RASCand  RCT 

Major-General  W.  Bate  and  Lieuten¬ 
ant  Colonel  R.E.  Wills  were  enter¬ 
tained  at  luncheon  yesterday  at  Mark 
Masons  Hall.  St  James*,  by  mem¬ 
bers  of  the  Royal  Array  Service  Corps 
and  Royal  Corps  of  Transport  Offi¬ 
cers’  Luncheon  Club.  Brigadier  D.N. 
Locke,  chairman,  presided. 


The  Royal  Ballet’s  youngest  principal  ballerina, 
Darcey  Bussell,  after  being  appointed  OBE  by  the 
Queen  at  Buckingham  Palace  yesterday 

Weather  fails  to  put 
a  damper  on  show 

By  Alan  Toogood,  horticulture  correspondent 


NO  MATTER  what  the  weather  is 
doing,  the  Royal  Horticultural 
Society  always  manages  to  stage 
impressive  shows  in  Westminster. 
This  month's  show  is  no  exception 
—  despite  many  gardens  and 
nurseries  still  being  under  water 
the  hall  is  packed  with  spring 
bulbs  and  other  seasonal  plants. 

The  host  of  golden  miniature 
daffodils  from  Broadleigh  Gar¬ 
dens.  of  Bishops  Hull.  Somerset, 
certainly  provides  a  welcome 
breath  of  spring.  The  new 
Cyclamineus  hybrid  from  Amer¬ 
ica.  “PTialarope"  with  bright 
yellow  trumpet  and  ivory'  swepi- 
back  petals,  looks  set  to  become 
popular. 

Equally  impressive  are  the  bold 
drifts  of  purple  and  blue  bulbous 
irises  [reticulata  cultivars)  staged 
by  Jacques  Am  and.  of  Sianmore. 
west  London.  More  of  these  irises 
can  be  seen  in  the  British  Iris 
Society's  early  shew  in  which  Mr 
Bemey  Baughen,  of  Downe.  Kent, 
has  won  the  mini-Feckham  cup  for 
the  cultivars  “George"  and  “J.  S. 
Dijl“  (purple)  and  “Edward" 
(violet). 

Camellia  blooms  seem  to  have 
come  through  the  wet  weather 
remarkably  well  in  some  gardens. 
Burncoose  Nurseries,  of  Redruth. 
Cornwall,  have  staged  a  large 
range  of  japonica  and  williamsii 
cultivars.  for  which  they  have  been 
awarded  a  gold  medal.  The 
wtlliamsii  cuitivar  “Jury's  Yellow" 
with  anemone-form  light  yellow 
and  white  flowers  takes  pride  of 
place. 

Several  new  japonica  camellias 
hum  America  are  making  their 
debut  on  the  stand  of  James 
Trehane  &  Sons,  of  Hampresion. 
Dorset:  "Lemon  Drop",  white 
flowers  with  a  lemon-white  centre; 
“Mariano"  with  large  red  anem¬ 
one-form  flowers,  lightly  scented; 
and  “Princess  Margaret",  rose- 
pink  anemone-form  flowers. 

Among  i he  other  seasonal  dis¬ 
plays  is  pan  of  the  National 
Collection  of  Ranunculus  fkaria 
(lesser  celandine),  staged  by 
Rowden  Gardens,  of  Brenmor. 
Devon.  It  reveals  a  surprisingly 
large  number  of  cultivars  and  an 
equally  surprising  variation  in 


habit,  from  double-flowered  cul- 
livars  such  as  “Flore  Pleno"  and 
“Green court  Gold"  [the  flowers 
haw  a  green  centre),  through 
bronze-leaved  kinds  including 
“Brazen  Child".  “Brambling". 
“Brazen  Hussy"  and  the  very  dark 
“Coppemob".  to  miniature  kinds 
and  tall  ones  with  foot-high  stems, 
typified  by  R.f.  major. 

’  Corydalis  are  in  vogue  and  a 
large  collection  has  been  staged  by 
Cambridge  Bulbs,  of  Newton. 
Cambridgeshire.  They  are  dimin¬ 
utive  perennials  with  distinctive 
spurred  flowers  and  often  ferny 
foliage,  although  the  grey  leaves  of 
the  yellow-flowered  Corydalis 
aitchisonii  are  spoon-shaped. 

The  RHS  Garden.  Wislcy.  is 
showing  globe  bulb  onions  for 
March  sowing  that  have  been 
given  Ihe  Award  of  Garden  Merit 
in  the  recent  trials  at  the  garden. 
They  all  look  alike  (globe-shaped 
with  golden-brown  skins)  except 
for  “Unwin's  Exhibition"  which  is 
more  conical  in  shape.  Unlike  the 
others,  it  is  primarily  an  exhibition 
cuitivar  and  does  not  store  well. 

In  the  display  of  botanical  an  the 
following  artists  have  been  awarded 
gold  medals:  Claire  Dafby.  of 
Camberley.  Surrey  (watercolour 
paintings  of  fungi):  Pauline M.  Dean, 
of  Guildford.  Surrey  (watercolour 
paintings  of  magnolias  from  the  RHS 
Garden.  Wtsleyl:  Lindsay  Megariny. 
of  Charlottesville.  Virginia.  USA 
(watercolour  paintings  of  fritiUarias): 
Siriol  Sherlock,  of  Michelrnersh. 
Hampshire  (watercolour  paintings  of 
passion  flowers  and  other  tropical 
Flowering  plants):  and  Annika 
Silander-Hokerberg.  of  Stockholm.^ 
Sweden  | watercolour  paintings  of 
flowers). 

The  RHS  ornamental  plant  com¬ 
petition  is  well  supported,  including  a 
new  class  for  five  blixnns  of  helle¬ 
bores.  The  winner  here  is  G.  W. 
Goddard,  of  ChingfonL  Essex,  show¬ 
ing  a  purple  orientalis  hybrid  The 
dass  for  four  ttees  or  shrubs  for 
flowers,  fruits,  foliage  and  bark  has 
been  won  by  Stounon  House 
Garden.  Zeals.  Wiltshire,  and  the 
dass  for  four  ornamental  plants  by 
Marie-Christine  Laubarede.  of  Dray¬ 
ton.  Oxfordshire. 

The  show,  in  the  New  Horti¬ 
cultural  Hall.  Greycoat  Street  West¬ 
minster.  Ls  open  today  from  I  Oam  to 
5pm. 


Today’s  royal 
engagements 

The  Queen  and  the  Duke  of 
Edinburgh  will  attend  a  dinner 
with  the  Chiefs  of  Staff  at  Ad¬ 
miralty  House  at  3.00. 

The  Duke  of  Edinburgh,  as  Presi¬ 
dent  of  the  Central  Council  of 
Physical  Recreation,  will  preside  at 
a  meeting  of  the  British  Sports 
Trust  Vice  Presidents,  followed  by 
a  luncheon,  at  13  Grosvenor  Cres¬ 
cent  ai  11.15. 

The  Prince  of  Wales  will  open  the 
West  Mercia  Constabulary  Train¬ 
ing  School  complex  and  Firearms 
Training  School  at  Htndfrp  Hall. 
Worcester,  at  10-20:  will  tour 
Lichfield  Cathedral  at  IJO  and 
view  recent  restoration  work:  as 
President  of  The  Prince's  Trust 
will  attend  a  meeting  with  busi¬ 
ness  and  voluntary  organisations 
at  Lichfield  Cathedral  Visitors’ 
Study  Centre  at  3.00  to  discuss  the 
trust's  project  in  support  of  the 
homeless  in  Staffordshire:  and  will 
attend  evensong  in  the  Cathedral 
at  3.40. 

Princess  Alexandra,  as  president 
will  visit  the  offices  of  the  Chil¬ 
dren’s  Countrv  Holidays  Fund  at 
42/43  Lower  Marsh.  SEI.  ai  3-tXfc 
and  will  attend  a  YWCA  reception 
at  Guildhall,  at  7.00. 


Christening 

The  infant  daughter  of  Mr  and 
Mrs  Francis  Gram  was  christened 
Elizabeth  Charlotte  by  the  Right 
Rev  Michael  Henley.  CB.  assisted 
by  the  Rev  Keith  Tripiow.  at  the 
Church  of  St  John  the  Baprisi. 
Kingston  Bagpuize,  on  Sunday. 
February  19.  The  godparents  are 
Mr  Malcolm  Hay.  Mr  Alexander 
Dundas,  Miss  Catriona  Grant. 
Mrs  Niall  Riddell  and  Mrs  Ed¬ 
mund  Bennett. 


Service  dinner 

HMS  Victory 

The  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Avon  and 
Somerset  and  Lady  Wills  attended 
a  dinner  held  last  night  onboard 
the  flagship  HMS  Victory.  Ports¬ 
mouth.  Admiral  Sir  Michael  Lay- 
ard.  Second  Sea  Lord  and 
Commander-in-Chief  Naval  Home 
Command,  and  Udy  Layard  were 
the  hosts. 


Dinners 

Society  of  Knights 
of  the  Round  Table 
Major-General  Michael  Walsh. 
Knight  President  of  the  Society  of 
Knights  of  the  Round  Table,  was 
the  host  at  a  Territorial  Army 
dinner  held  last  night  at  the 
Athenaeum. 

The  Institution  of  Chemical 
Engineers 

The  .Annual  Dinner  of  the  Institu¬ 
tion  of  Chemical  Engineers  was 
held  last  night  at  the  Savoy  HoteL 
The  President.  Professor  J. 
Garsidc.  and  Council  welcomed  as 
principal  guests  and  speakers  Sir 
John  Cadogaru  CBE.  of  the  Office 
of  Srienre  and  Technology,  and 
Mr  F.A.  Osborn.  CB,  from  the 
Department  of  the  EnvironmenL 


Latest  wills 


Mi  Michael  George  Somes,  of 
London  WC1.  the  Royal  Balia'S 
leading  male  dancer  for  many  years 
and  a  partner  of  Margot  Fonteyn,  left 
estate  valued  at  £994.439  no. 
Professor  Douglas  Charles  Aitdiison 
Brvis  of  Sheffield.  South  Yorkshire, 
former  Professor  of  Obstetrics  and 
Gynaecologist  at  St  James's  Univer¬ 
sity  Hospital.  Leeds,  left  estate  valued 
at  £148.469  net. 

Hr  (eft  ail  fits  scientific  books  and 
instruments  ro  the  Royal  College  of 
Obstetricians  and  Gynaecologists. 

Mr  Richard  Raymond  Archer,  of 
Colyton.  Devon,  left  estate  valued  at 
£726.493  nee 

He  left  1 1-000  lo  personal  legatees. 
C5 .000  to  Seaton  Hospital  and  the 
residue  equally  between  the  imperial 
Cancer  Research  Fund  and  Cancer 
Research  campaign. 


Forthcoming 

marriages 


i  * 


Mr  R.M.  Browning 
and  Miss  S.G-  Ferguson 
The  engagement  is  annoum^a 
between'  Robert  Mark,  younger 
son  of  Mr  and  Mrs  Robert 
Browning,  of  Hydra.  Greece,  and 
Susan  Gillian,  eldest  daughter  ol 
Mr  and  Mrs  David  Ferguson,  of 
Johannesburg.  South  Africa. 

Mr  RE.  Caaenove 
and  Miss  K.  Pennington 
The  engagement  is  announced 
between  Rohm,  son  of  Mr  and 
Mrs  Edward  Cazswve,  ol 
Brancaster.  Norfolk,  and  Katie, 
daughter  of  Mr  Donald 
Pennington  and  the  late  Belinda 
Ftenningion.  of  Cape!  Si  Maty* 
Suffolk. 

Mr  R.  DavkfrCooke 
and  Miss  C  Hiruta 
The  engagement  is  announced 
between  Philip  Rupert,  son  of  Mr 
and  Mrs  David  Davies-Coote.  of 
Barkston  Gardens.  London.  SW5. 
and  China,  daughter  of  Dr  and 
Mrs  Yoshiharo  Hiruta.  of  Ashiya. 
japan. 

Mr  HJ.S-  Dennc 
and  Miss  M-L  Banerjee 
The  engagement  is  announced 
beiweofHenry  John  Saisfidd.  son 
of  Mr  and  Mrs  John  Denne.  of 
Pyrton.  Oxfordshire,  and  Mary 
Louisa,  youngest  daughter  of  Mr 
and  Mrs  Arthur  Banerjee.  of 
Rainham.  Kent. 

Mr  M.V.  Johns 
and  Miss  R-V.G.  Thomas 
The  engagement  is  announced 
between  Michael,  son  erf  Mr  and 
Mrs  L.V.  Johns,  of  Holcombe. 
Somerset,  and  Rachel-Veronica. 
daughter  of  Captain  Bruce 
Thomas.  Royal  Navy,  and  Mis 
Thomas,  of  Hawtesbury  Upton. 
Badminton. 

Mr  A.  Thompson 
and  Miss  K.  Vaisey 
The  engagement  is  announced 
between  Andrew,  son  of  the  Rev 
and  Mrs  Tony  Thompson,  of 
South  Nuffield.  Surrey,  and 
Katharine,  daughter  of  Mr  and 
Mrs  David  Vaisey.  of  Oxford. 

Mr  AJ.  van  der  Graaf 
and  Miss  E.  Leaf 
The  engagement  is  announced 
between  Allard,  son  of  Mr  and 
Mrs  AJ.  van  der  Graaf.  of 
Wassenaar.  Holland,  and  Emma, 
daughter  of  Mr  and  Mrs  John 
Leaf,  of  Harrow.  Middlesex. 


Mr  S-P-St  J-  Lafe 

and  Miss  L.E.  Koflfcr  . 

The  engagement  is  announced 
between  Qiaries.  eldest  son  of 

SasSS®2 

Combenon,  Wonxstershire- 
MrW.B  MoOand 

and  Miss  CA-JoDilfe 

The  engagement  is  ^1J10un^ 
hrtwMi^tiliam.  son  of  Mrs  Sue 
andthe  late  Mrttyan 
MoBand.  of  Sowdfcigh.  Dewm. 
and  Catherine,  daughter  of  Mr 
and  Mrs  Anthony  Joffilfe  of  West 
Anstey.  Oevon. 

Mr  L.R.O-  Shinoer 

and  Miss  SJ- Walker 

The  engagement  is  announced 

between  Leo,  youngest  son 

late  Lieutenant  Cofond  Demd 
Skinner,  RTR,  and  of  Mrs  Denzil  . 
Skinner,  of  Cutnail  Green. 
Worcestershire,  and  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Mr  and  Mrs  Demcfc 

Walker,  of  Pwsey.  Wfflshire. 

Mr  HjG.  Waters 
and  Mias  CL.  CSdboa 
The  engagement  is  announced 
between  Harry,  second  son  of 
General  Sir  John  and  Lady  Wa- 
ters.  of  Dewn,  and  Candida,  efdesr 

daughter  of  Mr  and  Mrs  James 
Chilian,  of  Oxfordshire. 

Mr  S.R.S.  Wilson 
and  Miss  SjAJ.  Potts 
The  engagement  is  announced 
between  Simon,  eldest  son  of  Mr 
and  Mis  PJ.  Wilson,  of  Wimble-  i. 
don.  and  Sarah,  younger  daughter 
of  Mr  Trevor  Potts,  of  New  York. 
USA.  and  Mis  PAM-  Potts,  of 
Keevil,  Wiltshire. 

Marriage 

MrOA  Herasky 
and  Mbs  C  Badddey 
The  marriage  took  place  at 
Us  bury  Parish  Church  on  Feb¬ 
ruary  18. 1995.  between  Mr  Oliver 
Hemsfey  and  Miss  Charlotte 
Baddeley. 

The  bride  was  attended  by  India 
and  Grace  Warman.  Archie  Leog 
and  Henry  Faber.  Mr- -Edward 
Baring  was  best  man. 

A  reception  was  held  at 
Wardour  Castle  and  the  honey¬ 
moon  is  being  spent  in  South 
America. 


Anniversaries 


BIRTHS:  George  Washington,  1st 
American  President  17&L97.  West¬ 
moreland  County.  Virginia,  1732; 
Arthur  Schopenhauer,  philos¬ 
opher.  Gdansk.  1788;  Thomas  WitH 
ter.  pugilist.  Wfrcfiend.  near 
Fownhope.  Herefordshire.  1795; 
James  Lowell,  poet  and  diplomat. 
Cambridge.  Massachusetts,  1819; 
Robert  Badm-POweB.  Baron  Ba- 
den- Powell  founder  of  the  Boy 
Scout  movement.  London.  IS57. 
(his  wife  Olave.  World  Chief 
Guide,  was  bom  on  this  day. 
Wingerworth.  Derbyshire.  1889); 
Heinrich  Hertz,  physicist.  Ham¬ 
burg.  1857;  Eric  GDI.  artist,  sculp¬ 
tor  and  typographer. ,  Brighton. 
1882;  Edna  St  Vincent  Millay,  poet. 
Rockland.  Maine,  ,1892;  Luis 
Bunuel.  Spanish  film  director. 
Calanda.  1900. 

DEATHS:  David  Brace.  David  II. 
King  of  Scotland,  reigned  1329-71. 
Edinburgh.  1371;  Amerigo  Ves¬ 
pucci.  merchant  and  adventurer, . 
Seville,  1512;  Jean  Pierre  de 
Croosaz.  philosopher,  Lausanne. 
1750;  James  Barry,  painter. 
London,  1806:  Adam  Ferguson, 
philosopher,  St  Andrews,  1816; 
Sydney  Smith,  clergyman  and  wit 
London.  1845c  Sir  Charles  Lydl, 
geologist,  London.  1875;  Jean- 
Ba  paste  Conn,  painter.  Paris.  1875; 
Hugo  Wolf,  lieder  composer,  Vi¬ 
enna.  1903;  Stefan  Zweig,  novelist. 


Petra polis,  Brazil.  1942;  Elizabeth 
Bowen,  novelist  London.  1973c 
Oskar  Kokoschka.  -  painter. 
Switzerland.  19S0;  Andy  WarfaoL 
painter.  New  York,  1987. 

Spain  ceded  Florida  to  the  United 
States.  1819. 

Frank  Winfield  Wootwotthopened 
his  first  “  five  and  fen  cent"  store  in 
Utica.  New  York.  1879.-  -  - 
The  Times  ran  the  first  classified 
personal  column,- 1886.  -  . 

Dr  Seiman  Abraham  Waksman 
announced  his  discovery  of  .  the  : 
antibiotic  streptomycin.  1946.  .  £- 

Appointments 

Mr  John  Scott  Wolstenhelme  to  be 
a  Circuit  Judge,  assigned  to  the 
Norti)  Eastern  CimiiL 
Mis  Annie  Anderson  is  re¬ 
appointed  to  the  Council  of  Tri¬ 
bunals.  for  throe  years  from 
February  13. 


University  news 

Cambridge 
Sdwyn  College 

Elected  to  a  Fellowship  and  Coll¬ 
ege  Lectureship  in  English  from 
October  I: 

Bharat  Tandoo. 


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Your  heard  my  teartitog  m  die 
presence  of  many  wSdcomk 
hand  on  that  MkMiib  to  raU- 
abte  men  who  In  turn  w®  be 
qualified  to  leach  other. 

2  Timothy  2  :  2  (REBJ. 
Saturday.  February  4th. 


BIRTHS 


BAAKEH-MIU.  -  On 
February  I6th  at  The 
Pnrlland  Memorial,  to  Carolyn 
and  Adam,  a  rare  loon  (a  One 
boy)  8R»  407. 

BERRY  -  On  13th  February, 
lo  Emma  (n6c  Tracey)  and 
Ctirtolooner.  a  dsugliUr. 
ABce  Louise  Rose,  astswfor 
Oliver. 

BOUND  -  On  16th  February 
In  Guernsey,  to  Elaine  <n4e 
SchoOeM)  and  Qirtstoober.  a 
son,  Aubrey. 

CRICHTON  -  On  16di 
February,  to  Emma,  wife  of 
Desmond,  a  son. 

FOU  -  On  February  X9th 
1996  at  The  Portland 
Hospital,  to  Roland  and 
Metallic.  a  beautiful 
daughter.  Hannah  Sophia 
mm  7oz)  at  8:10  pm. 

GYNGELL  -  On  17tb  Febnory 

1995.  to  Kate  Infce 
Crcwtison)  and  Julian,  a 
daurfner.  Sarah  Ettenhelh 
Caroline,  a  stela-  to  juaadatr. 

HARWOOD  -  On  February 
16th  1996.  to  Catherine  (nfe 
Hewed)  and  Benjamin,  a 
daughter.  Serena  Alice 
Elizabeth,  a  sister  for  George 
and  CUci 

HILL  •  On  February  17th  at 
The  Royal  Free  HomttaL  to 
Shahla  (n*e  Bauer)  and 
Stephen,  a  dnushter,  Sarah 
Ounotfe.  a  staler  far 
Hannah. 

HOODGR  -  On  20di  February 

1996.  a!  Bath.  Somerset,  to 
Margaret  and  John,  a  son. 
Oswald  Richard  John,  a 
brother  for  Edmund.  Edttti 
and  Dunstan. 

LEWIS  -  On  February  20th.  at 
Brighton  Royal  Susan 
HoafUai.  to  Caroline,  wife  of 
Paul,  a  son.  Edward 
Christopher. 

McQEOUGH  -  On  170i 
February  1996.  to  Helena 
tnte  Peraunt  Jones)  and 
Declan,  a  daughter.  Uy 
Miranda. 


MONTAGUE  -  On  19th 
February  1990.  to  Emtty 
lx>6e  Batchelor?  and  Robert,  a 
daughter.  Natasha  Sophie. 

POPE  -  On  February  16lh  ai 
The  Portland  HospRaL  lo 
Sophie  and  Martin.  a 
daughter.  Erotty. 

ROBINS  -  On  February  16th. 
at  St  Richards  HaepBai. 
Chichester,  to  Susan  (Me 
Rountree)  and  David,  a 
daughter.  Charlotte  Louise. 

SAflABY  -  On  19th  February 
1996.  to  Sophie  and  Ramin, 
a  daughter.  Laura  Marcia. 


MARRIAGES 


POftTrtUOE-SWTH  -  Op 
18th  February  1998  at  St 
Barnabas  Church.  Epsom. 
Andrew  Port  and  Susan 
Lude-Snum. 


DEATHS 


ADLAM  -  Norah  (formerly 
FfcDer.  n£e  F1MU  beloved 
mother  and  grandmother. 
Private  croUDon.  ftunOy 
flowers  only.  Donations  if 
desired  to  R.NXJ..  West 
Quay  Road.  Pome.  BHiS 
1K2. 

AYRES -On  Sunday  Februmy 
12th  at  North  Staffordshire 
Royal  Infirmary.  Rotten 
Jonathan  aged  SI.  Modi 

loved  son.  husband,  father, 
brother,  brother -to- law  and 
friend.  Funeral  Service  at  Sr 
Peter's  Church.  Ruahtmy. 
ou  Thursday  February 
at  2  pro.  Family  flown 
only.  Donations  ir  desired  to 
North  Staffordshire  Royal 
tnflrmaiy  Head  hadurtes  Unit 
and  Ruslibroy  Part* 
Church.  Enmdrtes  to  AJ&. 
Morris  A  Son  Funeral 
Directors.  Church  Stratton, 
let  (0694)  722876. 

BELLOC  -  On  February  18m. 
Stella  (nto  Bason).  Widow 
since  1941  of  captain  Peter 
BeOoc  rtM-  beloved  mother, 
grandmother  and  graai- 
gntndBMtner.  HegTOam  Maw 
R.C-  Church  or  Si  Thomas 
More,  Martbarongh.  at  Man 
Tuesday  Febnoiy  28th 

followed  by  Interment  at  the 
Oioreh  or  Our  Lady  et 
Comotation.  West  CHuatead 
at  3  pin. 


BBIHAH  -  On  21st  February 
1996.  Phoebe,  of  Wtsya. 
Harley.  Surrey,  very  dearly 
loved  wife  of  Peter  and 
beloved  mother  and 
grandmother.  Funeral 
Sendee  at  St  Manias  Parish 
Church.  Chwlwpod.  Surrey, 
on  Friday  24th  February 
1995  at  1030  am.  (Mowed 
by  private  cremation.  FaraQy 
flowers  only.  Any  donations 
may  be  sent  to  Si  Catherine's 
Hoaptar.  Crawley.  EageHtt 
to  BaDnrd  &  SbortaOL  tet 
(0293)  820377. 

BERNARD  -  On  Monday  20th 
February,  peacefully  at 
home.  Jay  a*e  CtotWerj. 
wife  of  Toby,  mother  of 
tauto.  Conrad  and  Kate. 
Funeral  Service  at  St 
SwOhun's  Church.  BaOtford. 
Bath.  2.30  pn  on  Monday 
27th  February,  followed  by 
cremation  at  Westerteftpi  at 
3.30  go.  Floral  trfbules  and 
enqwirtea  to  Cooperative 
Funeral  Swvkat.  Putteaey 
Rood.  Bath.  W:  (0122® 
314304. 

CLARKE  -  On  February  6th 
1996.  peacefully.  Geoffrey 
Hayman  John  -  aged  86  - 
much  loved  husband  o 4  Joan 
and  devoted  tama  or 
Edward  and  Plppo  and 
rattier- in-Urw  or  Aim  and 
Angelina,  gi  rally  loved 
grandfather  of  Alexander. 
Gamma  and  Jonathan.  The 
funeral  has  taken  place. 
Donations.  If  wtebed.  to 

Cancer  Redd  MarmtHan 

Fund.  16-19  Brutes  SlreeL 
LODQco  SW3  5TZ. 


COX  -  Regtoaid  Arttnv 
R-V.M-.  rormerty  of  80 
Marina.  St  teaunb  on  Sea. 
passed  away  pearefidly  at 
Leavenheath  Farm, 

Leoverdwaih.  Suflotk.  an 
Sunday  19th  February  199S. 
aped  07.  The  funeral  wfl* 
take  place  at  All  Saints 
Church.  Chetsworth. 

Suffolk,  on  28th  February  at 
2  pm.  followed  by  private 
cremation.  No  Dowers, 
Donations  for  as  Saints 
Church.  Cheteworth.  and  ah 
exurubles  may  be  made  to 
W.A.  Deacon  Funeral 
Services.  High  Street, 
Lavenham.  CO  10  9PY. 
(01787  247389 L. 


DIXON  SMITH  -  On 
Februaty  19th.  peacebuBy  at 
tiome.  Dtxon.  aped  89  years. 
Loving  husband  or  Peggy 
and  the  late  AtMe  Winifred. 
Beloved  fattier  of  Peter.  BO. 
Jane  and  Jonathan,  dear 
srandfattier  and  great¬ 
grandfather.  Funeral  Service 
at  St  Mary's  Deanery 
Church.  Boddng.  on  Mcwday 
271b  February  at  2.30  pm. 
By  request,  famoy  flowers 
only,  donations  if  desired 
may  be  made  to  The  hnpertai 
Cancer  Research  Fund  or 

The  Royal  Agricultural 
Benevolent  batthitiiai 

through  W.C.  Brown  *  Sous 
Funeral  Service.  The 
Coppers.  Crossing.  Braintree 
CM7  SDQ.  teb  10376) 
W3264. 


CONNELL  -  Larry,  on 
Saturday  18th  February 
1998.  aged  80  years,  at  hte 
home  In  Jersey,  betorcd 
fattier  of  MdaeL  Jennifer 
and  Sally,  falber-in-taw  of 
Anne.  Brian  and  Charles,  a 
devoted  grandfather  of  Sean. 
Jonathan.  Lha.  3moc, 
James.  MUtae.  Luke  and 
Lily  He  wb  be  sadly  itdssod 
by  an  Ms  ftimOy  and  frtemts. 
The  (tmerai  sevlee  wffl  take 
place  in  Jersey  on  Tuesday 
28th  February.  Flowers  may 
tw  sant  u  rw,  ntaae  a 
Son  Ltd.  Funeral  Dtadora. 
34  Craal  Union  Road.  St 
HeH^.  Jmqr  by  noon  or 
donations  in  tteu  if  Pfffand 
may  be  sent  to  The  Uttered 
Jockey's  Fund.  PO  BOX  9. 
Newmarket,  Suffolk  CSS 
8JO.  Ail  engufrtes  please  » 
H-W.  MaQlard  &  Son  Lid.. 
M:  (0634)  37291. 

COnDELL-LAVARACK 

Denny,  died  lBtli  February, 
alter  a  short  Dtneas.  despite 
the  valiant  efforts  or  the  staff 
at  Qie  Mater  HospKaL 
Greatly  missed  by  Ms  finally 
and  mends.  Funeral  at 
Lorura  Church. 

Baoenahtown.  Co.  Carlow. 
Eire,  on  23rd  Fetmmry  at 
3pm.  Donations  lo  St 
Vincent's  Wand.  Mater 
Hospital.  DtebUn. 


EVANS  -  On  February  200l 
Irene  Constance,  aged  $3 
yaars.  widow  ctf  cntonel 
P-M-  Evans  M.C.  Private 
*3  emotion.  Service  of 
Th^hkaalvtog  Ftenamtlmoe 
Parish  Church.  CDnrwaH.  on 
Saturday  February  2®B  at 
11  am. 


J  OU 

February  1995.  peaceful 
hospital.  Frank  aged 
yean  or  Hay 
IDertiysWreX  the  A 
toved  husband  of  Dai 
Sovtag  dot)  of  Stephen.  Ji 
*  Carotin*. 

jmerid  Me.  much  v 
gransad  of  Aik 
Cftameoe.  Georgia 
Thomas  and  a  dear  in 

of  Mary  and  Oiartcs.  9a 

on  Monday  270»  Fcbnmi 
St  Matthew's  Chun± 
*3-45  pro  RHowed 
acmanon.  Family  Bur 
only,  donations  if  dram 
The  Brush  I 
Foundation.  Ati  donal 
and  eotr.  Jeremy  Unsw 
Ftmara  Service.  67  Cfa 
Road.  New  Mins,  ml  (o 
742TT2. 


1  GOULD  -  On  Fetmauy  17lh 
I  1996.  peacefully,  ntwtuni 
Mary  Oouhl.  widow  of 
Gerald  Cotrid  of  OU  Cawte 
Farm.  Duraford,  Exeter. 
Funeral  Service.  Dumford 
Partm  Church.  Friday 
1  FCbrutey  24th  at  1.16  pm 
followed  by  prtvate 
cremation.  No  flowers,  tart  If 
desired  donations  to  RSPCA 
or  NSPGC  nay  be  sent  to 
Mitchea  Funeral  Services. 
King  WU Oam  Street.  Exeter. 
EX«  6PD. 

HAMBLY  -  On  February 
18th.  suddenly  at  home  tn 
Mytoc.  Cornwall.  Dr. 
Michael  Trevan.  tovtng 
husband  of  Judy,  lather  of 
Patrick  and  Ropert  and  son 
of  Trevan  and  Geraldine  all 
of  whom  loved  him  dearly. 
Sadly  missed  by  aB  Ids 
tamDy  and  many  Mends. 
Funeral  sendee  at  St  Mylar 
Church.  My  lor  Harbour,  on 
Friday  asm  February  at 
ZJSO  ten.  followed  by  prtvate 

cremation  Fondly  flowers 

only.  Enquiries  and 
ikinafluiis  in  Beu  of  Powers 
c/o  LC.  Honey  Funeral 
Dlruaor.  Port  banc. 

Cornwafl. 

HOftUCX  -  On  Mcaalay  3001 
February  1996.  John  James 
MacDonald  tn  his  73rd  year. 
peacefoBy  at  home.  Adored 
husband  of  Jane,  much  loved 
miner  of  Mantel.  Aramlnta 
and  James.  Grandfather  of 
Edward.  Matilda.  Tatar. 
Jonathan.  Bartholomew. 

Alexander.  Jact  and  Hogo. 
Funeral  on  Friday  24th 
February  at  3  pm.  Free 
Church.  Pootewe.  Wester 
Ross.  Family  Flowers  only. 
Donations  -  The  CoMstream 

Wellington  Barracks.  SWi. 
071  414  3263. 

HOWELLS  -  Ob  19t» 
February  peacefully  at  home 
with  her  fumSy.  havtop 
borne  ber  mness  with 
oufttsiaMna  oam  ape  and 
dignity.  Dtana  Roscmorr 
“Posy”  Orfe  SoweM. 
Funeral  Servicr  at  Holy 
Trinity  Church.  Nortbwood. 
on  Thtxxday  23rd  February 
1999  at  12  noon.  Donations 
If  desired  to  Mtehaei  Sobel 
House  c/o  T.A.  EDanent  & 
Son  Ud..  21  Bridge  Street 
Pinner.  Middx. 

KEianr  -  On  February  19th 
1995.  peacefully  at  The 
Lister  HospUaL  WraenttHter, 
Han.  Alderman  Laurence 
Ambcrton  Kenny,  aged  74. 
Beloved  husband  of  Cynthia 
and  tovtng  father  of  mmda. 
Martin.  Brendan,  aephm 
aid  jack.  Servlca  at  St 
CuthbaTs  ChardL 

Fhabeach  Cardens,  London 
SW6.  at  2  pin  on  Monday 
27th  February  1996. 
Ftowws  to  DaBard  &  Barker 
Ltd..  308  CM  toumpton 
Road.  Inrwhin  SWS  or 
donations  to  RNJLJ- C/O  Mu 
ROMdfts.  51  Scursdale  vtnas. 
London  wa. 


LANfiHAM  -  On  Februray 
l«h  1996.  mtip  John,  born 
tn  Odcutta  1st  Sepoember 
1916  and  died  at  Ltnftxd 
Park  Nursing  Home. 
Ringwood.  alter  a  long 
Otitess.  The  runout  service 
wm  be  hem  at  sausbuy 
Oanatorlum  at  11  AO  amen 
Friday  February  20m. 
Enoutries  to  Barrow  Bros.. 
Funeral  Dtrearas.  2  Nanay 
Road.  Ringwood.  Hants.,  tel: 
(01-126)  472104. 

McQUTLLM  -  On  17tti 
February.  Ln  Anthony 
MX.  of  Ashford.  Mirnitnrr 
for  many  years  lecturer  of 
Aeronautical  EngUncrlng  ad 
Queen  Mary's  College. 
London  University.  RAP. 
FuiMnl  Service  at  Si 
Michael's  R.C.  Church. 
Ashford,  on  Thursday  23rd 
February  39m.  Bartel  to  lake 
place  at  St  MfchaeTs 
Cemetery.  Rtvetin.  Sheffield, 
on  24th  February  at  1.30pm. 

MIDDLETON  -  On  19th 
February.  reanfirty. 

Kenneth  WflUara  Bruce,  tn 
Ms  90tti  yew.  Qf  LedweP. 
Oxm.  rormerty  Sheriff  of 
The  Lottifans  and  Peebles. 
Funeral  Service  at  Mld- 
Warwldnuro  CkemaSortm. 
Weflesbourrw.  Warts.,  on 
Friday  24th  February  at 
2pm. 

MLWARO  -  Victor  Eds.  of 
ANsdumdi  and  Ropby.  14th 
February  199B.  to  Rugby, 
aged  81  years. 

MYEB  -  Diana  May  Cnfc 
CokUcutO  aged  77.  si  Queen 
Mary’s  House  Hampstead, 
on  19th  February,  geatty. 
after  ten  orud  years  or 
Ameimtrt  Disease.  She 
was  a  wonderful  wife  to 
Ewart  mother  to  Jonathan 
and  Rodney  and 
grandmother.  She  was  a 
tovtng  Wend  to  so  many. 
Funeral  to  the  East  Otapel 
Cotters  Great  Crematorium 
Hoop  Lane  NWl  l  at  l  AS  pro 
Friday  24th  February. 

PATERSON  -  On  19th 
February  1996.  In  Cyprus. 
Betty  Plains  Mteraon  aged 
S3  yaars.  widow  of  Bites* 
M&wtt  Paterson. 

PHIPPS  -  On  20th  February 
1995.  after  a  short  Ulna. 
Violet,  formerly  of 
WesfixjfaM*.  Dcridag. 
Funeral  private.  Donation 
for  Royal  Air  Forw 
Benevetent  Fund,  mu  be 
sent  to  Sherlock  A  Sons. 
Trdtia  House.  Dottong. 


.  On  F ebruny  20th 
rt  King  Edward  VD 
l  tar  Officers.  Ruth 
ace  aged  90  yean, 
at  Norman  Prince 
l  sendee  at  CWders 
CXecnatortuxB  at 
day  March  Iff  ff  12 
anmy  ftowa*  any.  if 
donations  to  Ben  of 
.  tec  Laverton  and 
d.  Funeral  D— rSera. 


RADFORD  -  John  Chartra 
Victor  M.B.E.  on  200% 
February  1996.  aged  6B 
yean  Betoved  bretlrra  of  Pal 
and  EDeen.  Service  at 
Reading  Crematorium  on 
Monday  27th  February  *t 
11 -JO  am.  Ftouity  flowers 
only.  Donations  If  desired  to 
Sue  Ryder  Home.  Nettiebed. 
Own. 


ROSS  -  On  February  17th 
1995.  al  the  Chelsea  and 
Westminster  VtospttaL 

Katherine,  beloved  wife  of 
Victor  and  great  friend  to 
many.  Funeral  at  the 
Grosvenor  Chapel  South 
Audley  StreeL  Wi.  on 
Tuesday  February  28th  at 
2pm.  Flowers  and  audrtn 
to  Chelsea  Funeral  Directors. 
2608  Fulham  Road.  SWiO 
9EL.  (0171)  362-0008. 


SHAM)  KYDO  -  Freda.  On 
2tst  Fetsuray  in  her  BSOi 
year  and  after  a  courageous 
sfnigffR  Sue  will  he  serefy 
missed  by  hte  ItonBy  ad 
Mends.  Funeral  at  11.30  am 
Friday  24th  February  St 
Goes.  Cheddtoahm.  Private 
amotion  afterwards. 

Family  Qowera  only  to  SJt. 
DtBamore  LKL.  17  OM  Road. 
Ltmlade.  LU7  7RF. 
Donattcm  to  Leukaemia 
Research  Fund.  43  Greff 
Ormond  StreeL  London 
WC1N  3JJ. 

SHAW  -  on  February  zoth. 
GerakUne  data  Gage  Cnfe 
Rice),  aged  94  yarns.  Loving 
mother  of  Mtchaef  and 
onaiitotother  of  Michael  and 
John.  All  etWrtrtee  u 
Edward  While  A  Son. 
OiKhester  COIZM)  782136. 


STEVENSON  -  Tony.  On 
.  16th  Fefxuary  1995.  Son  of 
the  tale  LL  Cdr.  and  Mrs 
wj-LH.  Sevasan.  brother 
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THE  TIMES  WEDNESDAY  FEBRUARY  22  1995 

Obituaries 


21 


Calder  Willingham,  American 
>  >  novelist,  playwright  and 

screenwriter,  died  on  February  19 
^ fonia.  New  Hampshire, 
aged  72.  He  was  born  in  Atlanta, 
ueorgia.  on  December  22. 1922. 

A  WRITER  of  power  and  originality. 
Calder  Willingham  nevertheless  gave 
his  best  years  to  the  cinema  where,  as  a 
scnpwnter.  he  was  associated  with 
films  like  Paths  of  Glory.  One-Eved 
Jacks  and  The  Graduate.  As  a  novelist 
it  was  at  one  time  fashionable  (in  this 
country  at  any  rate)  to  bracket  his 
name  with  that  of  J.  D.  Salinger.  This 
stemmed  from  the  superficial  resem¬ 
blance  between  his  first  noveL  End  as  a 
Man  (1947)  and  Salinger’s  Catcher  in 
the  Rye  (1951),  both  of  which  dealt  with 
the  problems  of  adolescence  in  a  school 
environment. 

The  comparison,  which  was  only 
possible  since  Willingham's  novel  was 
not  known  in  Britain  for  several  years 
after  its  American  publication,  was.  in 
any  case,  misleading.  There  could  have 
been  nothing  less  alike  than  Salinger’s 
cuteness  and  control,  and  the  sprawl¬ 
ing  power  of  Willingham.  Sometimes 
his  mastery  of  his  material  might  be  in 
doubt  His  sagas  of  criminality  and 
evil  in  America’s  Deep  South  were  apt 
to  contain  passages  which  bordered  on 
jf  inconsequentiafity.  But  his  compas¬ 
sionate  handling  of  his  human  materi¬ 
al.  his  ability  to  dive  down  to  the 
bottom  and  portray  disillusionment 
and  despair  without  lapsing  into  chic, 
invite  comparison  with  a  figure  of  the 
stature  of  Dos  Passos.  rather  than 
Salinger. 

it  was  the  cinema's  gain,  and  the 
American  novel’s  Far  greater  loss,  that 
Willingham  was  drawn  to  writing  for 
the  screen,  distinguished  though  his 
contribution  to  it  was.  Yet  when  the 
final  volume  of  his  trilogy  77ie  Big 
Nickel  appeared  in  1976. 25  years  after 
the  second,  it  could  be  seen  thaJ  the 
cinema  had  not,  as  it  so  often  does, 
taken  away  anything  essential  from  his 
creative  gift. 

Bom  in  the  Deep  South.  Calder 
Willingham  was  educated  at  The 
Citadel,  a  South  Carolina  military 
college.  End  as  a  Man .  based  on  his 
experiences  as  a  cadet  there,  was  a 
study  of  sadism  among  students,  long 
before  such  exposes  had  become 
fashionable.  Described  by  the  novelist 
James  T.  Farrell  as  “a  powerful,  vivid 
presentation  of  existing  evil",  the  book 
won  critical  praise.  But  almost  as 
important  to  its  commercial  success 
was  the  controversy  it  generated. 

Charges  of  obscenity  were  brought 
against  the  novel’s  publishers.  Van¬ 
guard  Press,  by  the  New  York  Society 


CALDER  WILLINGHAM 


Dustin  Hoffman  (Ben  Braddock)  and  Katharine  Ross  (Elaine  Robinson)  in  The  Graduate.  1967 


for  the  Suppression  of  Vice.  They  were 
dismissed,  but  not  before  a  sensational 
trial  which  garnered  Willingham  im¬ 
mense  publicity.  He  capitalised  on  it  by 
turning  End  as  a  Man  into  a 
Broadway  play  and  then  into  a  film.  At 
that  point  he  appeared  to  have  joined 
the  ranks  of  postwar  American  writers 
of  naturalistic  fiction  exemplified  by 
Norman  Mailer  and  James  Jones.  He 
is  still,  by  some  critics,  regarded  as  the 
outstanding  writer  of  his  generation. 

Although  he  published  a  total  of  ten 
navels  between  1947  and  1975  he  was 
never  again  to  repeat  this  initial 
commercial  triumph.  Though  a  fellow 
writer  like  Norman  Maher  might 
praise  him  as  bring  “a  down  with  the 
bite  of  a  ferret”,  the  American  critical 
establishment  largely  turned  its  back 
on  him. 

WHIingham  now  went  to  Hollywood 
where  he  began  to  produce  screenplays 
for  some  of  the  outstandingly  original 


pictures  of  the  rime.  His  screen  credits 
included  Stanley  Kubrick's  powerful 
depiction  of  cowardice,  corruption  and 
incompetence  in  the  trenches  of  1916. 
Paths  of  Gloty  (1957);  Marlon  Brando’s 
still-unique  western.  One-Eyed  Jacks 
(1961):  The  Graduate  (1967),  which 
propelled  Dustin  Hoffman  to  fame  as 
the  bemused  lover  of  an  older  woman 
who  gradually  establishes  his  own 
identity:  and  Little  Big  Man  (1970).  For 
The  Graduate  Willingham  won  an 
Academy  Award  nomination. 

Distinguished  though  his 
screenwriting  was.  it  was.  as  he 
admitted,  done  to  bring  home  the 
bacon,  and  the  necessity  of  commuting 
from  his  New  Hampshire  home  to 
Hollywood  took  a  toll  of  his  creative 
powers  for  at  least  a  decade.  More 
recently,  however,  the  film  Rambling 
Rose  (1991)  gave  him  a  more  tangible 
satisfaction,  since  it  was  his  own 
screenplay,  adapted  from  his  novel  of 


the  same  title  which  had  been  pub¬ 
lished  in  1973.  The  result  was  an 
entirely  felicitous  script,  lovingly  di¬ 
rected  by  Martha  Coolidge  and  shot  by 
Johnny  E.  Jensen. 

The  film,  an  intelligently  thought- 
out  story  about  the  impact  on  a  Deep 
South  family  of  the  introduction  into  it 
of  a  highly-sexed  and  completely 
uninhibited  19-year-old  (played  by 
Laura  Dem)  as  maid  and  general 
factotum,  beautifully  preserved  the 
intention  of  Willingham's  original 
novel  with  all  its  humorous  naivety 
and  understanding  of  human  frailties. 
From  it  the  innocent  seductress  of  the 
title  emerges,  despite  all  the  chaos  she 
causes  in  her  adoptive  family  —  as  well 
in  The  hearts  of  the  boys  and  men  of  a 
small  Southern  town  —  as  someone 
who  would  not  willingly  hurt  a  fly. 

Calder  Willingham  is  survived  by 
his  wife  Jane,  four  sons  and  two 
daughters. 


PROFESSOR  GERARD  TAYLOR 


Gerard  Taylor,  Professor 
of  Surgery  at  St 
Bartholomew's  Hospital, 
London.  1960-84.  died  on 
January  3  aged  74.  He 
was  born  in  Natal  on 
September  22. 1920. 

GERARD  TAYLOR  was  a 
very  special  and  unique  man. 
A  calm,  kind  and  modest 
person  of  small  physical  stat¬ 
ure  he  was  nevertheless  a 
giant  as  a  teacher  and  leader. 
He  was  at  the  same  time  a 
technically  superb  surgeon. 


Gerard  William  Taylor  was 
brought  up  in  Derby  by 
parents  who  had  a  strong 
concern  for  community  af¬ 
fairs.  His  father  was  a  local 
councillor  and  an  engineer  by 
profession.  Gerry  Taylor  left 
Bemrose  School.  Derby,  with 
a  county  scholarship  to  read 
medicine  at  St  Bartholomew’s 
Hospital  in  London.  He  was 
house  surgeon  in  Edgware 
and  then  was  commissioned 
into  the  RAMC.  serving  in 
France  and  Egypt. 

When  the  war  was  over  — 


conscious  perhaps  of  his  re¬ 
markable  facility  with  his 
hands  —  he  resolved  io  be¬ 
come  a  surgeon.  From  RedhiU 
Hospital  he  took  his  FRCS 
and  was  awarded  the  Hallen 
prize.  Sir  James  Paterson 
Ross,  then  Professor  of  Sur¬ 
gery  at  Bart’s,  heard  that  the 
highest  mark  of  all  time  had 
just  been  awarded  to  a  Ban's 
man.  Sir  James  sent  for  Taylor 
whom,  with  some  difficulty, 
he  eventually  recruited. 

At  the  time.  Bart’s  surgery 
was  at  the  height  of  its 


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reputation  and  poised  to  enter 
an  almost  legendary  period. 
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and  became  president  of  virtu¬ 
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which  he  was  associated. 
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stood  for  election  to  the  council 
of  the  Royal  College  of  Sur¬ 
geons  —  the  necessary  step¬ 
ping-stone  to  its  presidency. 
Instead,  he  concentrated  on 
his  work  at  Bart’s,  performing 
the  highest  quality  of  vascular 
and  endocrine  surgery.  In 
these  years  he  travelled  rela¬ 
tively  little  bur  he  greatly 
treasured  his  recognition  in 
the  United  States  when  in  1978 
he  was  presented  with  the 
honorary  fellowship  of  the 
American  College  of  Sur¬ 
geons. 

In  1983  at  the  age  of  63  he 
derided  <o  devote  three  years 
“where  I  can  do  some  good"  as 
Professor  of  Surgery  and 
chairman  at  the  King  Khalid 
University  Hospital.  Riyadh, 
Saudi  Arabia.  There  he  at¬ 
tracted  much  the  same  admi¬ 
ration  as  he  had  done  in 
London. 

In  his  retirement  Taylor 
helped  his  wife  Olivia  Gay, 
whom  he  had  married  in  1951, 
with  running  her  successful 
pony  stud.  She  survives  him, 
together  with  their  son  and 
daughter. 


MAJOR-GENERAL  LIONEL 
HARROD 


Major-General  Lionel 
Harrod,  OBE.  Assistant 
Chief  of  Staff 
(Intelligence^  SHAPE, 
1976-79.  died  on  January 
18  aged  70.  He  was  born 
on  September?,  1924. 

ORIGINALLY  an  officer  of 
the  Grenadier  Guards.  Lionel 
Harrod  transferred  to  the 
Welch  Regiment  in  the  middle 
of  his  career  when  the  3rd 
Battalion  of  the  Grenadiers 
was  disbanded  in  the  early 
1960s.  Not  many  officers  are 
able  to  change  from  one 
regiment  with  long  and  hal¬ 
lowed  traditions  to  another 
with  an  equally  revered  hist¬ 
ory.  and  possessing  strong 
Welsh  national  feelings  as 
well. 

Harrod's  considerate  and 
uncomplicated  character 
neutralised  his  Englishness 
and  enabled  him  to  identify 
with  his  Welsh  soldiers.  He 
became  a  highly  respected 
commanding  officer  of  the 
Welch  Regiment  in  1966  and 
played  a  major  role  in  die 
happy  amalgamation  of  the 
Welch  Regiment  with  the 
South  Wales  Borderers  to 
form  the  Royal  Regiment  of 
Wales,  whose  Colonel  he  was 
to  become  in  1977. 

Lionel  Alexander  Digby 
Harrod  was  educated  at 
Bromsgrove  School  and  com¬ 
missioned  into  the  Grenadiers 
in  May  1944.  His  twenty  years 
in  the  Guards  were  a  mix  of 
regimental  and  staff  appoint¬ 
ments.  He  served  with  them  in 
Germany,  in  Palestine  during 
the  British  Mandate,  in  the 
Malayan  emergency  and  in 
Tripoli  tania. 

After  attending  the  Staff 
College,  Camberley.  in  1955. 
he  was  appointed  Brigade 
Major  of  19m  Brigade  of  the 
Strategic  Reserve,  trained  for 
rapid  intervention  operations 
overseas.  They  landed  at  Port 
Said  in  1956  during  Anthony 


Eden’s  Suez  fiasco,  and  he  and 
his  brigade  commander  were 
the  Iasi  two  British  officers  to 
leave  Egypt  when  the  force 
was  eventually  withdrawn. 
He  was  appointed  MBE  in 
1957  and  saw  further  service 
with  his  brigade  in  Cyprus  in 
the  following  year. 

The  year  1963  saw  his 
transfer  to  the  Welch  Regi¬ 
ment  and  three  years  later  he 
assumed  command  of  its  1st 
Battalion,  and  spent  most  of 
his  tenure  in  Hong  Kong 
where  serious  Chinese  Com¬ 
munist-inspired  unrest  was 
disturbing  the  Crown  Colony. 
He  was  in  his  element. 

Working  closely  with  the 
police,  he  mounted  a  series  of 
novel  operations,  during  one 
of  which  he  landed  a  company 
with  its  supporting  policemen 
by  helicopter  from  the  aircraft 
carrier  Hermes  on  top  of  a  27- 
storey  building  housing  an 
illegal  Communist  printing 
press.  The  surprise  double 
envelopment  from  street  level 
and  rooftop  met  with  com¬ 
plete  success.  He  was  ad¬ 
vanced  to  OBE  in  1969. 

The  amalgamation  with  the 


South  Wales  Borderers  was 
due  to  take  place  towards  the 
end  of  his  tenure  in  command. 
It  was  typical  of  his  thought¬ 
ful  nature  to  volunteer 
handing  over  eight  months 
early  so  that  another  officer, 
who  might  otherwise  have 
missed  command,  could  take 
the  battalion  into  the  amal¬ 
gamation  period.  However, 
before  he  handed  over,  he  had 
die  privilege  of  parading  the 
battalion  at  the  Royal  Hospi¬ 
tal,  Chelsea,  on  "the  250th 
anniversary  of  its  formation 
there  in  1719. 

In  1969  he  was  appointed  to 
the  British  Defence  Staff  in 
Washington  and  in  1971 
became  military  attache  in 
Baghdad.  He  was  subsequent¬ 
ly  Chief  of  the  British  Mission 
to  the  Soviet  Forces  in 
Germany.  1974-76.  In  1976  he 
was  appointed  Assistant  Chief 
of  Staff  (Intelligence)  to  the 
Supreme  Allied  Commander 
Europe. 

He  retired  from  the  Army  in 
1979  but  became  its  Inspector 
of  Recruiting  as  a  retired 
officer  for  a  further  ten  years. 
This  enabled  him  to  maintain 
his  connections  with  the  Army 
which  he  loved. 

His  proudest  moment  in 
retirement  was  being  appoint¬ 
ed  Colonel  of  the  Royal  Regi¬ 
ment  of  Wales,  a  post  he  held 
from  1977  to  1982.  He  took  the 
greatest  interest  in  helping  to 
consolidate  the  amalgamation 
of  the  two  famous  Welsh 
regiments,  which  he  had 
played  so  great  a  part  in 
bringing  about  ten  years  earli¬ 
er.  He  was  also  active  in  the 
Military  Commentators'  Cir¬ 
cle,  the  British  Atlantic  Com¬ 
mittee,  Peace  through  Nato 
and  die  European  Atlantic 
Group.  Above  all.  he  was  a 
devout  Christian. 

He  married,  in  1952,  Anne 
Priscilla  Stormont  Gibbs.  She 
survives  him  with  their  son 
and  two  daughters. 


SIR  WALTER  BULL 


Sir  Walter  Bull  KCVO, 
chartered  surveyor  and 
former  adviser  to  the 
Dncby  of  Lancaster,  died 
on  January  9  aged  92.  He 
was  born  on  March  17. 

1902. 

WALTER  BULL  served  on  the 
Duchy  of  Lancaster’s  six-man 
council  for  17  years,  advising 
on  the  management  of  its 
35,000  acres  whose  income 
traditionally  swells  the 
Queen's  privy  purse. 

He  accepted  the  honorary 
appointment  in  1957  after  serv¬ 
ing  as  president  of  the  Royal 
Institution  of  Chartered  Sur¬ 
veyors  (R1CS)  and  was  closely 
involved,  a  decade  Later,  in  die 
sale  of  the  freeholds  of  residen¬ 
tial  property  in  Harrogate  — 
following  the  1967  Leasehold 
Reform  Act  He  had  made  his 
name  in  the  City  of  London, 
however,  where  his  know¬ 
ledge  of  property  values  in  the 
metropolis  helped  him  to  be¬ 
come  ooe  of  the  most  promi¬ 
nent  surveyors  of  his 
generation. 

Waiter  Edward  Avenon 
Bull  was  born  at  Walton-on- 
Thames.  He  was  the  son  of  a 
chartered  surveyor  of  the 
same  name  who  persisted  in 
calling  his  son  and  daughter 
"Boy"  and  "Girl'’  until  they 
were  into  their  teens.  They 
then  rebelled  and,  neither 
caring  for  his  or  her  Christian 
names,  elected  to  be  known  as 
Pat  and  Molly.  The  “Par 
reflected  young  Walter’s  birth 
on  St  Patrick’s  Day. 

He  started  at  Gresham’s 
School.  Holt  but  became  ill 
while  he  was  there.  Because  of 
the  school’s  discipline  and  its 
remoteness  in  Norfolk,  his 
parents  then  moved  him  to 
Aide nh am  in  Hertfordshire. 

On  leaving  school  he  was 
articled  to  his  father’s  firm 
Walter  Bull  and  Co  in  Queen 
Victoria  Street.  London,  where 
he  won  the  silver  and  gold 
medals  for  coming  top  in  his 
professional  examinations. 
After  three  years  there,  howev¬ 


er.  he  left  in  1924  to  join 
another  firm,  George  Baxter, 
and  five  years  later  went  to 
work  for  Wootton  and  Sons. 

He  drove  a  London  bus  in 
the  General  Strike  and,  as  a 
special  constable  at  the  time, 
was  given  a  truncheon,  which 
he  kept  as  a  memento.  Around 
the  same  time  he  .began  to 
attract  wider  attention  in  his 
profession  through  a  paper 
which  he  read  to  the  R1CS  on 
the  1927  Landlord  and  Tenant 
Act 

It  was  on  the  strength  of  this 
that  he  made  his  most  signifi¬ 


cant  move  in  1930  —  to  join  the 
highly  regarded  City  firm  of 
Vigers.  It  was  at  Vigers,  whose 
clients  included  London 
Transport,  K  Shoes  and  the 
Grosvenor  Estates,  that  Bull 
made  his  name. 

He  succeeded  Geoffrey 
Vigers  as  senior  partner  in 
1942  and  continual  as  such 
until  1974.  after  which  he 
retired,  retaining  an  interest  in 
the  firm  as  a  consultant  Then 
in  i  987.  aged  85.  he  rejoined  (as 
a  consultant)  his  father’s  com¬ 
pany  which,  after  closing  in 
the  1920s.  had  been  revived. 


He  served  on  a  wide  num¬ 
ber  of  committees  in  the  RJCS 
and  at  one  time  fought  hard 
for  the  registration  of  survey¬ 
ors.  working  closely  with  Har¬ 
old  Macmillan  when  the 
future  Prime  Minister  was 
Minister  of  Housing  under 
Churchill.  Between  1952  and 
1976  he  was  also  a  deputy 
commissioner  of  the  War 
Damage  Commission,  adjudi¬ 
cating  on  contested  claims. 

During  the  Second  World 
War  itself.  Bull  had  com¬ 
manded  a  unit  of  air  raid 
wardens  in  Putney,  London. 
He  was  also  a  director  of  the 
City  of  London  Building  Soci¬ 
ety.  a  liveryman  of  the  Mer¬ 
chant  Taylors'  Company,  and 
at  one  time  a  member  of 
Dorking  Urban  District 
Council.  His  work  for  the 
Duchy  of  Lancaster  was  recog¬ 
nised  first  by  his  appointment 
as  CVO  in  1964  and  then  by 
his  creation  as  a  Knight  Com¬ 
mander  of  the  Royal  Victorian 
Order  in  1977. 

Pat  Bull  was  a  formidable 
negotiator  with  a  direct,  forth¬ 
right  style.  He  had  a  reput¬ 
ation  for  finishing  every  job  in 
hand  with  meticulous  care, 
writing  out  all  his  lengthy 
reports  in  copperplate  long- 
hand.  He  was  also  a  celebrat¬ 
ed  after-dinner  speaker  with  a 
variety  of  outside  interests. 
These  included  music  —  he 
was  a  patron  of  Glyndeboume 
for  many  years  —  and  motor 
cars.  His  cars  included  a  1930s 
Rolls-Royce  and  a  succession 
of  Jaguars. 

He  adored  North  Wales, 
particularly  the  architect-de¬ 
signed  village  of  Portmeirion. 
and  did  not  consider  he  had 
had  a  proper  holiday  unless  he 
had  blocked  off  his  exhaust 
pipe  on  one  mountain  track  or 
another.  He  would  then  dili¬ 
gently  drag  his  young  family 
up  Snowdon. 

He  is  survived  by  his  wife 
Moira,  whom  he  first  met 
through  the  Putney  Lawn 
Tennis  Club  and  married  in 
1933.  and  by  their  son. 


A  CENTRE  OF  VICE 

NIGHTLY  SCENES  IN 
THE  WATERLOO  ROAD 
Inquiries  made  by  a  representative  of  The 
Times  show  that  the  state  of  things  now 
prevailing  in  this  district  is  revolting.  Night 
after  night  the  short  stretch  of  road  between 
Siam  ford-street  and  the  "Old  Vic"  is 
thronged  by  women  who  are  unmistakably 
pursuing  (he  traffic  of  prostitution.  Some  of 
the  most  shameless  of  them  openly  accost 
soldiers  as  they  walk  along  the  street  or  Inter 
at  the  corners. 

The  writer  two  nights  ago  saw  a  Da  grant 
instance  of  so  lid  tali  on  outside  the  doors  of  the 
Union  Jack  Club.  A  young  woman,  fairly  well 
dressed,  walked  up  to  a  soldier,  who  stood  on 
the  kerbstone  aimlessly  watching  the  traffic  in 
and  out  of  Waterloo  Station  entrance.  She 
spoke  a  few  words  to  him.  and  he  turned 
away.  Unabashed,  sbe  moved  a  few  yards 

along  the  road,  and  made  her  appeal  to  a 
second  soldier,  who  was  idling  away  his  time 
at  the  edge  of  the  pavement.  He  also  rejected 
her  overtures.  A  little  farther  on,  she  offered 
herself  to  a  third  man.  and  again  she  was 
rebuffed.  In  each  case,  as  she  moved  away, 
she  flung  back  a  taunt  at  the  soldier.  In  each 
case  the  writer  caught  the  words. ‘uttered  in 


ON  THIS  DAY 
February  22  1917 


The  campaign  “ for  the  cleansing  of 
London  from  impurity"  which  prompt¬ 
ed  this  investigation  seems  to  have  been 
long  overdue. 


rather  shrill  tows:  "  Well,  what  are  you 
standing  there  for?"  Presently,  the  woman 
was  seen  to  accost  another  soldier,  and  this 
time,  apparently,  she  found  a  victim,  for  the 
two  remained  talking  for- some  time,  and 
finally  disappeared  into  one  of  the  side 
streets. 

In  the  course  of  a  couple  of  hours’ 

observation  die  writer  witnessed  several  cases 
of  verbal  solicitation  of  soldiers  by  prostitutes. 
The  whole  district  is  so  infested  by  prostitutes 
that  no  one  could  walk  a  hundred  yards  from 
the  station  in  any  direction  without  passing 


scores  of  them.  But  this  open  Daunting  of  vice 
in  the  main  street  is  by  no  means  the  worst  of 
Lhe  evils  which  have  made  the  very  name  of 
Waterioo-road  noisome  to  everyone  who  has 
any  care  for  the  good  repute  of  London.  There 
is  ample  evidence  that  the  back  streets  which 
spread  like  a  net  between  Westminster 
Bridge-road  and  Blackfriars-road  are 
.  honeycombed  with  “  house  or  accomodation  " 
and  shebeens. 

.  Here  is  the  statement  made  to  our 
representative  by  a  level-headed  and  experi¬ 
enced  man.  who  has  been  giving  his  time 
lately  to  social  work  among  soldiers  in  the 
neighbourhood  of  Waterloo: — “  If  you 
describe  the  Water  loo-road  and  the  back 
streets  as  an  open  sewer,  you  will  be 

somewhere  near  the  truth.  The  state  of  affairs 
in  this  district  is  just  appalling.  Not  aday  goes 
by.  and  sometimes  not  many  hours  go  by, 
without  bringing  to  me  some  soldier  who  has 
teen  waylaid  and  robbed  by  the  creatures 
who  pollute  this  part  of  our  London.  Three 
nights  ago,  two  young  fellows  came  to  me 
within  a  few  minutes  of  each  other  and  told 
me  the  same  story,  of  how  they  had  got  into 
bad  company,  and.  after  leaving  the 
public  houses,  had  gone  away  with  women, 
who  rifled  their  pockets  during  the  night  and 
were  gone  when  they  awoke  in  the  morning." 


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Our  client,  a  £90m  FMCG  company  with  market  leading  brands 
is  looking  for  an  outstanding  individual  to  fill  a  high  profile  role. 

Reporting  to  the  head  of  sales,  your  brief  will  be  to  drive 
forward  the  thinking  behind  the  Sales  Strategy  and  to  manage  a 
team  implementing  innovative  Category  Management  solutions. 
We  are  currently  at  the  leading  edge  in  this  field  and  you  must 
have  the  ability  to  take  us  even  further. 

In  order  for  you  to  reach  this  challenging  goal,  it  is  important 
that  you  are  a  strategic  thinker,  self-motivated  and  a  team 
player,  able  to  influence  people  with  your  ideas.  You  will  have  a 
proven  record  of  achievements  in  demanding  roles  and  able  to 
handle  the  considerable  autonomy  and  responsibility  placed  on 
you.  Directly  related  experience. is  not  essential,  however,  a 
high  calibre  graduate  who  has  had  3-4  years’  experience  with  a 
major  consultancy  or  strategic  business  unit  in  a  large  company 
is  ideal. 

Success  in  this  role  would  leave  you  ideally  placed  to  move  into 
other  functions,  given  the  Company’s  positive  and  open  minded 
career  development  policy. 

if  you  are  interested  in  this  exciting  opportunity,  please  send  a 
detailed  CV  to  our  advising  consultants:-  . . 

LJA  Recruitment  Management, 

1 2  Celbridge  Mews,  Porchester  Road, 

London  W2  6EU 

Please  quote  reference  number  02/747. 

RECRUITMENT 


Producers 


Language  Services 

We  need  full-time  (fixed  term  contract)  Producers  for  future  vacancies,  to  work  in  the 
following  languages: 

Arabic;  Azeri;  Bengali;  Brazilian  Portuguese;  Burmese;  Cantonese; 

Czedi;  Hamm-  Hindi;  Hungarian;  Indonesian;  Kazakh;  Kirgiz; 
Macedonian;  Mandarin;  Nepali;  Pashto;  Persian;  Polish;  Romanian; 
Bnarian;  Serbian;  Sinhala;  Slovak;  Somali;  Spanish  for  Latin  America; 
Swahili;  Tamil;  Turkish;  Ukrainian;  Unin;  Uzbek;  Vietnamese. 

You  will  need  one  of  these  languages  as  your  first  or  best  language;  excellent  written  and 
spoken  English;  up-to-date  and  thorough  knowledge  of  political,  economic  and  social 
conditions  in  the  country  receiving  our  broadcasts;  journalistic  or  broadcasting 
experience  as  well  as  proven  creative  ability;  a  good  radio  voice  and  excellent  linguistic 
skills;  the  ability  to  translate  quickly  and  accurately  from  English;  education  to  degree 
level  or  equivalent;  ability  to  work  to  deadlines  as  part  of  a  professional  team  of  journalises 
and  within  the  BBC's  strict  editorial  standards.  Keyboard  and  typing  skills  are  also 
essential,  as  well  as  the  ability  to  use  modem  broadcasting  technology. 

Re  lief  producers  are  also  required  to  work  on  an  ad  hoc  basis  to  cover  periods  of  staff 
shortage  in  the  following  languages: 

Albanian;  Arabic;  Azeri;  Bengali;  Brazilian  Portuguese;  Bulgarian; 
Burmese;  Cantonese;  Czech;  Hansa;  Hindi;  Indonesian;  Kazakh; 

Kirgiz;  Macedonian;  Mandarin;  Nepali;  Pashto;  Polish;  Russian; 

Sinhala;  Slovak;  Somali;  Spanish  for  I-atin  America;  Swahili;  Tamil; 

Thai;  Turkish;  Ukrainian;  Urdu;  Uzbek;  Vietnamese. 

Fixed  term  salary  from  &1S.738  p.a.  plus  £1,636  unpredictability  allowance  p  a.  Relief 
Producers  are  paid  an  hourly  rate  depending  on  qualifications  and  experience.  Based 
Central  London. 

Mease  said  your  Ml  Curriculum  Vitae  with  a  covering  letter,  enclosing  an  S.A.E.  and 
dearly  stating  language  and  whether  full-time  or  relief  to  (quote  ret  1S07E/T)  BBC  World . 
Service  Recruitment  Office,  Room  111  NE  Bush  House,  Strand,  London  WC2B  4PH. 

Applicants  for  Chinese  and  Vietnamese  should  also  send  a  cassette  recording  of  then- 
voice  in  the  appropriate  language. 

Applications  must  be  received  by  March  6th. 

Candidates  who  have  applied  within  the  last  12  months  need  not  reapply. 

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as  external  agencies  to  develop  and  implement  plans  for  the 
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You  wiil  be  energetic,  enthusiastic,  a  good  team  player 
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capabilities  to  handle  multi-faceted  projects  within  agreed 
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if  you  feel  you  have  the  sldlls  and  experience  necessary 
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Mrs  Wendy  Tant.  Personnel  Manager.  Mannesmann  Tally 
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Tel:  01734  788711.  Fax:  01734  773127. 


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A  leading  international  publisher  requires  a 
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control  of  resources  and  information  flow. 

You  will  need  a  minimum  of  five  years’ 
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innovative  and  fast-growing  company  and  the 
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candidate.  Salary:  £3035,000 

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We  are  a  leading,  growing  vertically  integrated  apparel  manufacturing 
group  with  headquarter*  in  Hong  Kong  and  factories/bales  office*  world¬ 
wide.  To  BUppart  the  rapidly  expanding  business,  we  are  looking,  for  a 
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-  Bawd  in  UK,  frequent  travelling  to  the  Far  East  will  be  required. 

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-  At  leant  26  years  of  age. 

-  University /Polytechnic  graduates. 

-  At  leasts  yearn  apparel  merchandising  or  marketing  experience  in  leading- 
department  stores.  Manufacturing  experience  together  with  a  strong 
design  background  will  be  an  advantage. 

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Attractive  remuneration  will  be  offered  to  the  right  candidate.  Please  send 
your  full  resume  together  with  a  recent  photograph  to  our  UK 
representative  Office. 

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385  Edgware  Road 
Cricklewood 
London  NW2  6LQ  . 


MARKETING  MANAGER/ 

NEW  BUSINESS  INTRODUCTION 

Isle  of  Man  Trust  Company  with  crating  busmen  in  Africa  is  seeking  to  broaden  its 
diem  base  by  the  appointment  of  ■  penon  of  a  sound  financial  and  commercial 
background  with  substantial  existing  contacts  within  the  African  Continent  with  a 
view  to  marketing  the  offshore  financial  amices  provided  by  the  company. 

Remuneration  sahl  be  based  on  a  reasonable  salary  level  together  with  substantial 
performance  related  pay. 


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STERLING 

MARKETING  LIMITED 

Business  Development  Director/ Account  Manager  - 
International  MaO  Order  (West  End) 

Sterling  is  the  leading  mail  order  project  management  company 
in  Britain.  Its  business  is  to  assist  in  the  development  of  new 
upscale  catalogue  businesses,  through  a  client  base  composed  of 
American  cataloguers  expanding  overseas,  British  entrepreneurs 
entering  the  mail  order  market,  and  retailers  with  catalogue 
operations.  Sterling  is  now  looking  to  add  to  its  senior 
management  team  with  these  postions: 

Business  Development  Director  (C£3QK)  -  Since  graduating  van 
will  already  have  several  years'  experience  in  the  analysis  of  new 
markets,  and  in  presenting  to  clients  at  a  senior  level.  Your 
strong  academic  background  will  have  equipped,  yon  to  learn 
quickly  the  unique  sldlls  and  techniques  involved  in  our 
business,  and  some  existing  experience  of  direct  marketing  will 
be  an  advantage,  though  not  essential  You  will  be  able  to 
demonstrate  dear  strategic  thinking,  proficiency  with  business 
modelling  and  forecasting,  as  well  as  the  strength  of  character  to 
a  t^verse  range  of  subcontractors  and  suppliers  in  the 
mail  order  start-up  process. 

Agpouut. Mamgfir  (C.fTflK)  -  As  a  graduate  with  at  least  two 
years  experience  in  media-buying,  supplier  management, 
analysis  of  marketing  performance,  possibly  with  an  erisiting 
mail  order  business,  you  wfll  now  be  ready  for  a  more 
substantial  challenge.  Sterling  seeks  a  manager  to  assist  in  all 
apects  of  the  mail  order  process,  including  planning,  business 
development,  catalogue  and  advertisement  production,  client 
and  supplier  liaison,  and  database  and  fulfilment  management 

Please  send  CV  and  covering  letter  to  Sophie  Magauran,  citing 
which  of  the  positions  are  of  interest:  Sterling  Marketing  Ltd, 
250A  Brampton  Road,  London  SW3  2AS.  TeL-  0171  225  3773 


* 


THE  TIMES  WEDNESDAY  FEBRUARY  22  1995 


Radio  5  Live's  first  England- 
Waies  rugby  international 
at  Cardiff  Arms  Park- 
wnere  else  would  you  have  expect¬ 
ed  me  to  be  last  Saturday  after¬ 
noon?  Seated  in  the  BBC  Radio 
WaJes  commentary  box,  I  thought 
of  Michael  Grade's  story  of  the 
Welsh  fan  who  asked  Cliff  Mor¬ 
gan:  "Goin'  to  the  match,  Cliff?" 
The  famed  sportscaster  replied 
that  he  was  covering  it  for  BBC 
Radio.  Came  the  sympathetic  re¬ 
sponse;  “Pity  you  wont  be  seem'  fr 
then." 

Thanks  to  BBC  Radios  WaJes 
and  5.  I  was  not  only  hearing  h. 
but  seeing  it  double.  Fortified  with 
earphones  providing  the  commen¬ 
tary  of  either  service.  I  watched  the 
action  both  on  a  television  monitor 
straight  in  front  of  me  and,  just  20 
yards  away,  on  the  muddy  ground 
iteelf.  As  Land  of  My  Fathers  from 
50.000  Welsh  throats  welled  up,  I 
feit  sorry-  for  my  husband,  a  loyal 
son  of  the  Principality,  seated  high 
in  the  Upper  North  Stand  opp¬ 
osite. 


^j^osays  Auntie  is  not  looking  after  the  regions?  To  judge  by  last  Saturday's  saturation  rugby  coverage  from  Cardiff,  there  can  be  no  complaints 


Bread  of  heaven  from  the  BBC 


The  commentary  box  turned  out 
to  be  a  row  of  boxes:  open  concrete 
cubicles  in  which  pairs  of  various 
extranely  well-dressed  men  were 
impassioned  ly  describing  the 
match  to  each  other  as  if  they  were 
the  only  ones  covering  it.  Within  a 
few  yards  were  also;  die  BBC’s 
Welsh-ianguage  Radio  Cymru, 
S4C.  the  Welsh  Channel  4  for 
which  the  BBC  provides  Welsh- 
language  sports  commentary  free, 
BBC-TV  Wales  and  BBC-TV  Net¬ 
work.  Elsewhere  were  ITV.  Sky 
Television  and  probably  others, 
united  in  a  vast  effort  to  bring  one 
event  to  a  waiting  world. 

Does  this  world  include  women? 
Does  this  most  male  of  all  sports 
hold  anything  for  the  female  of  the 
species?  And,  on  a  such  a  Satur¬ 
day.  with  two  rugby  internationals 
{Scotland  against  France,  too),  can 


the  new s-and-s port  network  Radio 
5  possibly  be  anything  other  than 
Radio  Bloke? 

There  were  plenty  of  women 
there  on  Saturday,  unlike  foe  days 
when  1  first  followed  my  husband 
through  the  turnstiles  of  what  is 
properly  called  the  National  Stadi¬ 
um  and  discovered  that  it  was 
easier  to  find  a  spare  ticket  lying 
on  the  ground  than  find  a  ladies' 
room.  But  rugby  has  no  women 
presenters.  Eddie  Butler  acknowl¬ 
edged  foe  problem.  A  Welsh 
international  player  from  1980-84. 
he  is  now  television  commentator 
for  the  Welsh  edition  of  BBCl^ 
Grandstand.  They  say,  ‘Get  a 
woman  presenter!'  But  ft  isn’t 
enough." 

What  you  need.  Butler  says,  is 
knowledge.  Rugby  is  a  particularly 
complicated  game,  hard  to  follow. 


BRENDA  MADDOX 


The  ball  keeps  disappearing 
under  heaps  of  bodies."  The  best 
way  to  recruit  more  women  fans, 
he  suggests  (correctly),  is  to  offer 
more  explanatory  features  and 
pre-match  guides  to  foe  funda¬ 
mentals  of  foe  game. 

Butler  thus  answers  a  question 
that  perplexed  me.  What  is  it  about 
skilled  wrestling  in  a  scrum  that 


qualifies  a  man  for  the  art  of 
rattling  on  coherently  in  front  of  a 
live  microphone?  The  Arms  Park 
last  week  was  awash  with  players- 
tumed -presen ter.  Obviously,  it 
helps  to  be  Welsh  on  such  an 
occasion,  accustomed  to  enunciat¬ 
ing  pofysyllabicaUy  without  hesita¬ 
tion.  Charm  helps  too. 

To  perform  on  Radio  5.  Barry 
John,  the  Welsh  rugby  immortal, 
arrived  rosy  and  beaming,  wear¬ 
ing  one  of  those  single-Sreasted 
dark  blue  Chesterfields  to  which 
politicians  are  so  partial.  1  braved 
a  question.  “Wifi  Wades  really 
move  to  a  new  stadium  in 
Bridgend?"  "Not  a  chance,  love," 
he  said,  planting  a  big  kiss  on  my 
cheek. 

Most  of  the  commentators  came 
prepared  with  sheaves  of  hand¬ 
written  statistics  and  anecdotes. 


Still,  they  have  to  be  prepared  for 
foe  unexpected,  as  on  Saturday 
when  the  Welsh  forward  John 
Davies  was  given  the  first  red  card 
in  international  rugby  and  was 
sent  off  for  kicking  an  English 
player  in  the  head.  This  left  Wales 
one  man  short  and  in  a  state 
described  by  Barry-  John  as  "to-tal 
con-fu-sion". 

Worse  followed  when  there  was 
a  tactical  substitution  in  the  name 
of  injury  for  a  player  who  was  not 
injured.  They  have,"  said  Ian 
Robertson,  the  Radio  5  chief  rugby 
commentator,  “broken  the  laws  of 
international  rugby.  But  they  had 
to  do  it"  (In  order  to  save  an 
untrained  forward  from  possibly 
breaking  his  neck  in  the  scrum. 
You  see  how  much  I  learnt) 

Is  perhaps  all  this  coverage  not  a 
bit  excessive  for  an  efficiency- 


obsessed  BBC?  Yet  on  Saturday 
Radio  5.  broadcasting  over  the 
whole  country,  had  not  only  to 
follow  Scotland-France  and  an 
array  of  football  matches  at  the 
same  time,  it  had  to  be  strictly 
neutral.  Radio  Wales  was 
singleminded  and  partisan. 

BBC-TV  Wales  too  is  unasham¬ 
edly  nationalistic.  After  Wales  had 
lost.  9-23,  k  promised,  over  an 
emotive  collage  of  the  Welsh  flag 
and  mud-spattered  red  jerseys. 
Tomorrow  is  Another  Day" .  The 
message  was  the  latest  in  BBC 
Wales's  prizewinning  rugby'  pro¬ 
motions  which  stir  up  tribal 
passions  powerful  enough  to  make 
any  native  ready  to  die.  let  alone 
sing,  for  Wales. 

From  Cardiff  how  odd  seemed 
the  BBC's  vacuous,  over-designed, 
new  document.  People  and  Pro¬ 
grammes,  proclaiming  that  li¬ 
cence-payers  far  from  London 
believe  the  BBC  is  out  of  touch 
with  their  real  lives.  Can  anybody 
in  Wales  feel  neglected  by  the 
BBC?  I  don't  believe  iL 


What  are 
papers  for? 

Roy  Greenslade  on  the  issues 
local  newspapers  must  address 


Top  of  the  Pops  back  on  track 


Sales  of  regional  dai¬ 
ly.  evening.  Sunday 
and  weekly  newspa¬ 
pers  —  with  just  a 
few  notable  exceptions  — 
are  in  decline.  For  years  foe 
list  of  six-monthly  circula¬ 
tion  figures  has  shown 
more  minus  than  plus 
signs. 

Why  are  people  deserting 
their  local  papers?  Is  this 
trend  irreversible?  Are  we 
witnessing  the  end  of  the 
age  of  print?  These  are  the 
kinds  of  questions  regional 
groups  and  their  publishers 
association,  the  Newspaper 
Society  (NS),  have  long  been 
asking. 

Owners  and  editors,  con¬ 
vinced  that  there  is  some 
magic  formula  to  turn  the 
tide,  remain  remarkably 
sanguine  about  the  future. 
But  they  also  often  call  into 
question  their  own 
initiatives. 

The  latest  self-assessment 
has  been  a  lengthy  study 
into  "new  product  develop¬ 
ment"  the  attempts  to  stim¬ 
ulate  readers  by  offering 
extra  sections  or  providing 
electronic  services.  The  NS 

called  in  an  _ 

international 
brand  develop-  Paper 

ment  consul  tan-  ^ 

cy.  CLK,  and  its  jjg 

findings  —  pre¬ 
sented  by  its  fnnt 

chairman,  Cree- 
nagh  Lodge,  at  ■ 

last  week’s  an-  aunj 

nual  NS  confer-  , 

ence  —  offered  a  iilaJvc 
fascinating  in- 
sight  into  the 
problems  which  bedevil  re¬ 
gional  papers. 

Ms  Lodge  was  full  of 
praise  for  the  innovative 
executives  who  people  all 
departments  in  newspa¬ 
pers.  But  there  was.  she 
said,  no  agreement  across 
foe  industry,  and  even  with¬ 
in  newspaper  groups,  about 
why  they  were  in  business. 

In  other  words,  Britain's 
newspaper  executives  can 
no  longer  agree  what  news¬ 
papers  are  for.  Are  they,  as 
journalists  still  argue,  pur¬ 
veyors  of  news  and  opinion? 
Are  they  publishers  of  ad¬ 
vertising  material?  Are  they 
just  another  branch  of  busi¬ 
ness.  like  canned  food,  in 
which  profit  is  the  only 
spur?  Do  they  still  have  a 
public  service  role?  They 
want  to  serve  the  commun¬ 
ity,  but  in  what  way? 

Ms  Lodge  confined  her¬ 
self  to  describing  this  lack  of 
motive  as  a  problem  in 
terms  of  developing  new 
product  But  the  subtext  of 
her  speech  was  dear  forget 
about  the  new  product  and 
ask  yourselves  what  has 
happened  to  the  old 
product 

It  is  no  good  spending 
hundreds  of  thousands  on 
innovations,  if  the  news- 


Battle  of  two 
TV  doctors 

DANGERFTELD,  B  BCl’s  new 
drama  starring  Nigel  le  Vail- 
lant  as  a  local  GP  and  police 
surgeon,  makes  it  comfortably 
into  foe  top  half  of  our  drama 
ratings  chart  Alexandra 
Frean  writes.  Although  ITV 
still  dominates  foe  drama 
charts,  its  own  doctor  senes. 
Doctor  Finlay,  scheduled 
against  Dangerfield,  attracted 
s900,000  fewer  viewers. 

The  first  episode  of  The 
Buccaneers  on  BBC1  attracted 
92  million  viewers  —  200.000 
more  than  the  combined  total 
for  the  initial  (BBC2)  and  the 
repeat  (BBCI)  showings  of 
episode  one  of  Martin 
Chualewit. 


Papers  were 


never 


founded 
simply  to 
make  money 


paper  is  being  eroded. 

That  fundamental  error 
stems,  it  appears  to  me. 
from  the  changed  nature  of 
regional  and  local  news¬ 
paper  ownership.  The 
papers  were  founded  by 
people  who  wanted  to  make 
a  difference  in  their  locality. 
It  was  never  simply  to  make 
money. 

Now  the  local  newspaper 
is  part  of  commerce,  usually 
owned  by  a  conglomerate 
which  cannot  buck  market 
forces  and  must  return  ever- 
increasing  profits.  Share¬ 
holders  with  short-term 
desires  place  pressure  on 
companies  to  perform,  and 
those  companies  demand 
that  local  managers  im¬ 
prove  margins  every  year. 

The  need  to  make  profits 
has  inevitably  meant  that 
the  burden  for  growing 
revenue  has  fallen  on  to 
advertising.  Therefore,  over 
time,  the  ratio  of  editorial 
content  to  advertising  has 
become  unbalanced.  Too 
often  local  paid-for  papers 
have  become  like  frees,  with 
advertising  dictating  the 
amount  and  position  of 

_ _  editorial.  People 

have  become 
yy0j-0  disillusioned  by 
having  so  little 
pr  toread. 

I  made  this 

iprf  PO^  “  a 
panellist  during 

v  to  a 

y  session 

and  there  was 
lOney  muted  ap- 
plause.  un- 
”  doubted  ly  from 
the  editorial  delegates,  some 
of  whom  spoke  to  me  in 
whispers  afterwards. 

They  complained  about 
the  rundown  in  staffing,  the 
relatively  low  wages  they 
can  afford,  the  implausibil- 
ity  of  trying  to  innovate 
when  the  paper  itself  is 
starved  of  resources. 

One  editor  told  me  that 
the  advertising  depart¬ 
ment's  decision  on  the  plac¬ 
ing  of  adverts  was  final,  and 
could  change  at  foe  last 
minute.  Editorial  had  be¬ 
come  foe  secondary  matter. 

Why  the  whispers?  Edi¬ 
tors  who  face  what  are 
referred  to  as  “new  reali¬ 
ties"  have  to  toe  foe  line. 
They  have  lost  controL 

One  can  only  hope  that 
foe  subtext  of  Ms  Lodge's 
address  was  taken  to  heart 
by  delegates  and  that  they 
are  today  bombarding  the 
controlling  companies 
which  own  foe  hundreds  of 
newspapers  around  this 
country  with  memos. 

The  question  is  simple: 
what  are  newspapers  for? 
But  are  owners  prepared  to 
provide  the  right  answer  by 
giving  back  to  editorial  foe 
resources  to  make  local 
papers  essential  reading 
once  more? 


Audience  figures  for  the  celebrated 
TV  show  have  grown  nearly  a 
quarter  in  a  year.  Alexandra  Frean 
celebrates  its  revival 


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TOP  of  the  Pops,  for¬ 
mer  bastion  of 
spangly  jackets,  out- 
of-synch  miming, 
inane  pop  prattle,  kipper  ties 
and  flares,  is  enjoying  a  re¬ 
markable  revival.  In  the  past 
12  months,  the  programme 
has  been  transformed  from  an 
insipid  showcase  for  main¬ 
stream  single  releases  and 
unwatchable  dance  bands  to  a 
varied  and  bold  show  featur¬ 
ing  album  tracks,  more  live 
performances,  new  acts  and 
celebrity  presenters. 

Its  audience  has  leapt  by 
nearly  a  quarter  to  8.4  million 
viewers  in  a  year  and 
timeshift,  or  video,  viewing  of 
the  show  has  also  grown  from 
virtually  nil  to  300.000  people 
a  week  since  January  1994. 

Tomorrow  night’s  edition  of 
the  programme  features  the 
band  Blur,  which  swept  the 
board  at  Monday’s  Brit 


Jimmy  Savile:  first  host  in  1964 


Awards,  not  performing  its 
latest  hit  single,  but  giving  an 
exclusive  performance  of  Jubi¬ 
lee.  a  track  from  its  Parklife 
album.  The  programme  will 
be  presented  by  Peter  Cunnah 
of  foe  band  CkReam,  and  will 
also  screen  the  world  tele¬ 
vision  premiere  of  Madonna's 
new  video.  Bedtime  Story. 

To  cement  the  programme’s 
revival  foe  BBC  is  today 
launching  a  Top  of  the  Pops 
magazine,  aimed  not  at  the  ten 
to  16-year-old  teenybopper 
market  catered  for  by  titles 
such  as  Smash  Hits,  but  fans 
in  their  late  teens  and  early 
twenties. 

In  April  it  is  planning  to 
release  a  Top  of  the  Pops  CD. 
containing  original  mixes  of 
singles  and  album  tracks  re¬ 
corded  for  foe  programme. 

Ric  Bliutill,  the  32-year-old 
producer  behind  foe  show's 
revival,  said  that  the  magazine 
and  the  album 
would  tie  in  with 
both  Top  of  the  Pops 
and  with  TOTP2, 
BBC  2's  Saturday- 
night  version  of  foe 
programme  target¬ 
ed  at  older  viewers. 
Blaxill  said  the 
changes  were  neces¬ 
sary  to  restore  the 
programme's  main¬ 
stream  showbusin- 
ess  appeal. 

The  show  had 
been  suffocated  by 
the  rules  which  said 
that  they  had  to  play 
new  releases  and 
new  chan  entries, 
regardless  of  foe 
quality.  Ir  had  to  be 
freed  up,"  he  said. 

As  well  as  adding 
more  album  tracks 
and  live  perfor¬ 
mances,  Blaxill  has 
commissioned  a 
new  theme  tune  for 
the  programme 
from  Vine*  Clarke, 
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sure,  and  rebuilt  the  TOTP  set 
to  give  it  a  futuristic  metallic 
look 

In  same  respects  Top  of  the 
Pops  can  be  seen  as  a  micro¬ 
cosm  of  today’s  BBC.  and 
other  programmes  can  be 
expected  to  follow.  The  desire 
to  win  back  a  mass  audience 
and  to  generate  extra  revenue 
through  merchandising  spin¬ 
offs  are  an  obvious  response  to 
the  political  imperatives  being 
placed  on  foe  corporation  by  a 
government  keen  to  maintain 
licence-fee  funding  for  as  long 
as  possible. 

At  its  peak  in  the  early 
Eighties.  Top  of  the  Pops 
attracted  nearly  16  million 
viewers.  But  audiences  de¬ 
clined  to  around  five  million  in 
foe  early  Nineties.  The  first 
programme,  broadcast  on 
New  Year’s  Day.  1964.  from  a 
disused  church  in  Manches¬ 
ter,  was  presented  by  Jimmy 
Savile  and  featured  Dusty 
Springfield  singing  I  Only 


Want  to  Be  with  You,  foe 
Rolling  Stones  with/  Wanna 
Be  Your  Man  and  the  Dave 
Clark  Five  singing  Glad  All 
Over. 

The  initial  run  was  planned 
for  only  six  weeks,  but  the 
programme  was  such  a  suc¬ 
cess  that  it  was  continued. 
During  the  Seventies  Top  of 
the  Pops  featured  Pan’s  People 
and  Legs  &  Co,  and  a  band’s 
appearance  on  foe  show  could 
push  its  single  several  places 
up  the  charts. 

The  decrease  in  singles  sales 
was  partly  responsible  for  the 
show's  decline  in  the  mid-  to 
late-Eighties.  as  was  foe  pre¬ 
ponderance  of  dance  records, 
which  did  not  always  make  for 
exciting  television. 

Paul  Lester,  features  editor 
of  Melody  Maker  magazine, 
says  an  appearance  on  Top  of 
the  Pops  still  has  tremendous 
kudos  in  the  eyes  of  most  rock 
and  pop  artists,  partly  because 
mast  of  today’s  stars  grew  up 


watching  it  in  the  Sixties  and 
Seventies. 

“Record  company  people 
still  have  to  go  through  a  very 
embarrassing  interview  with 
the  BBC  in  which  they  virtual¬ 
ly  have  to  beg  to  get  their 
bands  on  the  show,"  he  said. 

Jonathan  Morrish.  of  Sony, 
says  that  as  the  audience  for 
pop  and  rock  radio  stations 
fragmented  with  the  launch  of 
more  and  more  stations,  Top 
of  the  Pops  became  a  consoli¬ 
dating  force. 

Despite  the  success  of  inno¬ 
vative  popular  culture  pro¬ 
grammes.  such  as  Channel  4’s 
The  Word,  in  attracting  new 
bands  and  targeting  a  specific 


audience.  Top  of  the  Pops  is 
still  the  most  important  pop 
and  rock  programme  for  mass 
audiences,  Morrish  says. 

He  cites  the  example  of 
MN8,  whose  single  I've  Got  a 
Little  Something  for  You  owes 
its  current  place  in  foe  chart 
largely  to  two  recent  appear¬ 
ances  on  the  show. 

According  to  Mat  Snow, 
editor  of  the  music  magazine 
Mojo,  Top  of  the  Pops  is  more 
relevant  to  foe  record  industry 
than  at  any  time  in  foe  past  ten 
years.  “It  is  only  natural  that  a 
show  like  this  has  to  refresh 
itself  every  few  years,”  he  said. 
“That’s  what  popular  culture 
means." 


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Who  would  ever  have  Creating  a  brand  name  is  a  SS^SSSSL  “SKE  £ 

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an  advertising  comp¬ 
any  Cord i ant?  Few  admen, 
whose  egos  usually  dictate 
that  their  name  is  emblazoned 
in  gold  outside  their  agency’s 
front  door.  But  then  Cordiant 
is  foe  new  name  for  foe  old 
Saatchi  &  Saatchi  group,  the 
marketing  services  empire 
which  felfout  with  its  founders 
and  now  boasts  neither  a  Mr 
Saatchi  nor  a  Mr  Saatchi. 

According  to  the  press  hand¬ 
out,  foe  new  name  expresses  a 
new  spirit  characterised  by  ac¬ 
cord  and  shared  purpose.  Der¬ 
ived  from  the  roots  “cor"  or 
“cordia".  meaning  core  or 
heart,  it  positions  the  company 
“at  the  heart  of  one  of  foe 


world’s  leading  communica¬ 
tions  groups".  That  may 
sound  pretentious  twaddle, 
but  they  had  to  come  up  with 
something,  and  to  declare  that 
the  new  name  means  nothing 
at  all  would  sound  even  worse. 
Yet  that’s  foe  way  modern 
brand  and  corporate  naming 
is  going:  marketers  are 
realising  that  it's  the  market¬ 
ing  that  creates  meanings,  not 
words. 

The  easy  part  of  brand  nam¬ 
ing  is  finding  something  short, 
memorable,  easy  to  pronounce 
and  different.  The  hard  and 


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expensive  part  is  avoiding 
unfortunate  connotations  in 
other  languages  and  cultures 
(if  foe  name  is  to  cross  borders) 
and  making  sure  it  is  also 
registrable  and  protectable  as 
a  trademark. 

Getting  foe  right  associa¬ 
tions  is  foe  next  step.  When 
Ford  introduced  a  family  of 
cars  like  the  Capri,  Cortina 
and  Corsair  in  foe  1970s,  they 
all  started  with  foe  letter  C  to 
link  them  in  one  happy  Ford 
family.  And  they  ail  had  a 
slight  Mediterranean  air, 
because  this  was  foe  age  when 
foe  foreign  holiday  was  a 
symbol  of  affluence,  excite¬ 
ment  and  freedom. 

Likewise.  Sainsbury’s  soft 
drink  Gio  has  a  get  up  and  go, 
holiday,  beachy  feel  to  it. 
whereas  it  called  its  new  cola 
Classic  because  it  wanted  to 
send  the  message  that  it  is  as 
good  as  anything  else  on  the 
market,  says  Robert  Mac- 
Ginn,  an  account  director  at 
M astern ame  who  advises  the 
retailer  on  its  product  names. 

But  in  foe  end  foe  power  of 
marketing  makes  foe  linguis¬ 
tic  content  of  brand  names 
almost  irrelevant.  Bersil.  Ariel 
and  Novon  tell  us  nothing 
about  soaps.  We  accept  with¬ 
out  question  that  Typhoo  is  a 
tea.  Anchor  a  butter.  Apple  a 
computer.  Orange  a  mobile 
phone.  If  someone  offered  you 
a  food  product  called  Frog’s 
Nose  you  would  probably  be 
disgusted,  says  lan  Wood 


from  identity  company  Lan- 
dor  Associates.  But  you  don’t 
worry  about  eating  Bird's  Eye 
foods. 

Invented  names  have  two 
big  advantages.  They  make  it 
easier  to  avoid  cultural  misun¬ 
derstandings,  and  they  are 
less  likely  to  hit  legal  snags. 
(As  soon  as  some  bright  spark 
links  a  word  like  Apple  to  a 
computer,  criier  bright  sparks 
rush  out  and  register  orange, 
banana  and  avocado.  “People 
actually  make  a  living  out  of 
registering  names  so  that  oth¬ 
er  people  have  to  buy  them," 
says  Dave  Allen,  managing 
director  at  identity  consultants 
Sampson  Tyrrell.} 

Invented  names  like  Cordi¬ 
ant  have  a  fine  pedigree.  All 
over  the  world  Kodak  stands 
for  quality  film.  Yet  Kodak  is  a 
meaningless  jumble  of  letters 
invented  by  company  founder 
George  Eastman  on  the 
ground  that  the  letter  K  is  dis¬ 
tinctive.  If  he  had  a  short  word 
with  a  K  both  at  the  beginning 
and  the  end,  he  reasoned,  it 
would  be  doubly  so. 

Nowadays,  firms  like  his 
use  sophisticated  computer 
programmes  which  either  em¬ 
ploy  super-thesauruses  to 
churn  out  foe  roots  and  deriva¬ 
tions  of  a  word  in  scores  of 
different  languages,  or  which 
put  Together  combinations  of 
letters  m  a  way  that  culturally 
bound  humans  find  difficult. 
Thai’s  how  Zeneca,  foe  bio¬ 
technology  spin-off  from  1CI, 
came  into  being.  The  root  was 
zen-  from  zenith  and  the 
computer  did  the  rest 

Alan  Mitchell 


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■  John  Major  delivered  a  passionate  plea  to  the  politicians  and 
people  of  Northern  Ireland  against  allowing  the  chance  of  a 
permanent  peace  in  the  Province  to  slip  away. 

As  he  prepared  to  fly  to  Belfast  for  today’s  launch  of  the 
London-Dubiin  proposals  for  the  future  of  Northern  Ireland 
the  Prime  Minister  underlined  his  readiness  to  consider 
alternative  plans  that  had  been  put  forward  by  the  Unionist 
parties . v . . . Pages  1, 10, 18, 19 

Oxbridge  heads  quit  club  in  protest 

■  The  heads  of  Oxford  and  Cambridge  colleges  have 

announced  their  mass  resignation  from  Che  historic  London 
club  that  bears  their  name  in- protest  at  what  they  said  was  its 
offensive  treatment  of  women,  who  are. not  granted  full 
membership-......,. — ... - - - Page 1 


Unilever  counts  cost  . 

Unilever  has  admitted  that  its  ill- 
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the  group's  finances  after  the 
company  was  forced  to  withdraw 
and  reformulate  it . Pages  I,  25 

Fearless  pilot 

Flight  Lieutenant  Jo  Saiter,  the 
RAFs  first  woman  pilot  qualified 
to  fly  Tornado  bombers,  has  dis¬ 
closed  that  she  never  feels 
fear . ! . . . Page  I 

Manager  dismissed . 

Arsenal  dismissed  their 'manag¬ 
er.  George  Graham,  two  days 
before'  the  Premier  League  com¬ 
mission  of  inquiry  investigating 
allegations  of  irregular  payments 
makes  its  report . . Pages  1, 48 

Pension  controversy 

A  government  proposal  aimed  at 
ensuring  a  fairer  treatment  of 
pensions  on  divorce  has  been 
greeted  with  criticism  from  peers, 
divorced  wives’  groups  and 
lawyers - - - Page  2 

Mountain  survivor 

Cross-country  skier  Andrew  Wil¬ 
son.  feared  to  have  frozen  to  death 
after  being  lost  for  three  nights  in 
the  Grampian  mountains,  amaz¬ 
ed  rescuers  when  he  walked  to 
safety...:. . -....-...Page  3 

Clergy  job  fears 

Clergy  in  the  Church  of  England  ' 
are  in  open  rebellion  against 
moves  to  abolish  their  freehold, 
the  “job  for  life" . Page  5 


Victims’  views  sought 

Victims  of  violent  crime  are  to  be 
asked  for  their  opinions  on  prose¬ 
cutions  and  the  granting  of  bail, 
the  Director  of  Public  Prosecu¬ 
tions  has  announced . Page  6 

Republican  hopefuls 

Robert  Dole  has  emerged  as  the 
leading  Republican  presidential 
hopeful  and  preferential  treat¬ 
ment  for  minorities  is  the  issue 
with  which  the  party  plans  to  split 
the  Democrats . Page  IS 

Phone  tap  denial 

Edouard  Bahadur,  the  French 
Prime  Minister,  denied  that  he 
faced  a  Watergate  over  telephone 
taps  and  shrugged  off  calls  for  the 
dismissal  of  his  political  ally. 
,  Charles  Pasqua . Page  14 

Trade  talks  defended 

Organisers  of  the  British  busi¬ 
ness  delegation  conducting  ex¬ 
ploratory  trade  talks  in  Baghdad 
have  denied  allegations  that  they 
were  breaking  United  Nations 
sanctions  against  Iraq ....  Page  i2 

Peres  plea  to  PLO 

As  PLO  leaders  were  about  to 
meet  in  emergency  session. 
Shimon  Peres,  the  Israeli  Foreign 
Minister,  appealed  to  its  mem¬ 
bers  not  to  suspend  the  troubled 
peace  talks . Page  12 

Peace  in  Old  Kabul 

The  guns  fell  silent  a  week  ago 
and  the  Old  City  of  Kabul  is 
seeing  a  rare  sight  once  again: 
people.- . Page  tl 


Mme  Calment,  120,  enjoys  media  glory 

■  As  photographers  clustered  around  Jeanne  Calment  on  her 
120th  birthday  yesterday,  she  looked  up  with  the  merest  trace  of 
a  smile.  “Ar  first  we'thought  that  she  would  be  tired  by  all  these 
journalists,  but  in  fact  they  amuse  her;  She  finds  it  all  rather 
funny,"  the  doctor  at  the  retirement  home  in  Aries,  Provence, 
said  of  the  world’s  oldest  living  person . Page  14 


THE  TIMES  TODAY 


WEDNESDAY 


/ 


Democratic  Unionist  Party  officials  at  Westminster  yesterday  before  their  leader  the  Rev  lan  Paisley,  second  right,  met  John  Major  to  discuss 
the  Ulster  framework  document  From  left  Nigel  Dodds,  party  secretary.  Peter  Robinson,  deputy  leader,  and  the  Rev  William  McCrea.  Page  l 


party  secretary.  Peter  Robinson,  deputy  leader. 


Banking:  National  Westminster 
Bank  is  looking  for  acquisitions  to 
fill  in  weaknesses  in  its  investment 
banking  and  Courts  private  bank¬ 
ing  operations.  Derek  Wanless.  the 
chief  executive,  said:  “We  do  not 
rule  out  in-fill  acquisitions  if  organ¬ 
ic  growth  seemed  uneconomic  or 
inadequate” - Page  25 

Borrowing:  The  Government  has 
announced  a  reform  of  the  system 
used  for  borrowing  money  on  the 
gilt-edged  market  in  an  effort  to 
make  it  cheaper,  more  efficient  and 
attractive . - . Page  25 

Markets:  The  FT-SE 100  index  rose 
4.8  points  to  3023.4.  Sterling's 
trade-weighted  index  rose  from 
86.9  to  87.0  after  a  fail  from  $1.5840 
to  $1.5805  but  a  rise  from 
DM23332  to  DM23383 —Page  28 


|  :  ~  SPQRTV  ' 

Cricket  Brian  Lara  has  signed  a 
three-year  contract  with  Warwick¬ 
shire  starting  in  1996.  He  is  due  to 
tour  England  with  West  Indies  this 
summer - - - Page  44 

Motor  racing:  Williams  unveiled 
their  new  car  for  the  1995  Formula 
One  season,  in  which  new  regula¬ 
tions  will  increase  safety  and  parity 

of  competition  - . Page  48 

Rugby  union:  Wales  have  selected 
the  uncapped  Spencer  John,  21,  of 
Llanelli  to  play  at  tight-head  prop 
against  Scotland  at  Murrayfield  on 
March  4. - Page  43 

Racing:  Richard  Dunwoody 
marked  his  return  after  a  30-day 
suspension  with  a  win  from  his 
only  ride  at  Warwick  on  the  13-8 
Allegation  in  the  Regency 
Hurdle _ —Page  45 


Director  in  the  news:  As  Natural 
Bom  Killers  finally  arrives  in  Brit¬ 
ain.  film-maker  Oliver  Stone  ex¬ 
pounds  his  favourite  rhemes: 
murder,  modem  morality  and  the 
art  of  making  movies . Page  37 

Past  master  Was  the  Third  Earl  of 
Burlington  just  an  accomplished 
amateur,  or  was  he  a  virtual  profes¬ 
sional  18th-century  architect?  A 
Royal  Academy  exhibition  aims  to 

find  out . Page  37 

Assessing  the  prize:  The  Prix  de 
Lausanne  deserves  to  be  much  bet¬ 
ter  known  in  Britain,  considering 
that  half  of  the  Royal  Ballet's  prin¬ 
cipal  dancers  have  been  among  its 

winners . . . Page  38 

Theatrical  comeback:  Field  Day 
Theatre  Company  is  fighting  back 
with  a  new  Uncle  Vanya... Page  39 


/  TOMORROW 

IN  THE  TIMES 

■  FAN  THE  FLAMES 
Geoff  Brown  asks 

if  Oliver  Stone's 
Natural  Bom  Killers 
is  worth  its  publicity 

■  WINNING  PAGES 
Read  our  12-page 
Penguin  supplement 
and  you  could  win  a 
holiday  in  Barbados 


Franco  Zeffirelli:  Dalya  Alberge 
meets  the  director  who  never  mar¬ 
ried  but  enjoys  two  mistresses:  op¬ 
era  and  film - Page  16 

Libby  Purves:  Women  who  sacri¬ 
fice  careers  in  marriage  earn  their 
half  of  the  pension . Page  16 

First  class:  Order  your  haute  cou¬ 
ture  by  post . Page  17 

/r'.yVV. 

Chart-riser:  The  ratings  revival  of 
Top  of  the  Pops . Page  23 

Bam  dance:  A  West  Country  farm¬ 
er  can  neither  find  a  use  for  his 
bams  nor  receive  planning  permis¬ 
sion  to  convert  them - Page  41 


A  United  Nationssanctioned  em¬ 
bargo  compels  Iraq  to  give  up  its 
weapons  of  mass  destruction  and 
accept  monitoring  of  its  arms-mak- 
ing.  Until  Baghdad  lives  up  to  the 
letter  of  the  law.  it  is  essential  to 
maintain  those  sanctions . 

— The  New  York  Times 

Hong  Kong's  cheating  husbands 
breathed  a  sigh  of  relief  this  week, 
when  the  government  rejected  a 
proposal  to  criminalise  the  territo¬ 
ry's  most  elaborate  form  of  adul¬ 
tery  —The  Wall  Street  Journal 


Preview*-  Carol 

love  with  a  Gambian  half  her  ag^- 
Modern  Times  (BBC2,  9pin);Jefi# 
their  story.  Review:  Lynne. Tmssi 
acclaims  a  revealing  glimpse  of fife* 
in  the  Jamaican  ghetto — P*ge$L 

j  . 

Part  of  the  peace  v/;; 

Today’s  historic  document  is  W:. 
last  gesture  of  the  old  way  of  doing-: 
things.  It  is  for  foe  rim&Jgi. 
Northern  Ireland  to  deride 
new _ _ 

Student  power 

It  is  now  entirely  appropriate  jfc  :  - 
the  UN  to  abandon  its  present,  and;.'; 
obsolete,  peace  plan  for  Afghan¬ 
istan  - — Page  19.^ 

Retired  and  alone  , 

Men  should  be  discouraged 
thinking  that  they  can  slough- off  -, 
responsibility  for  first  fatnfii&v- 
through  divorce - — .P&geJJC 


SIMON  JENKINS 

I  was  wrong  in  December  -EXgS 
about  John  Major's  Ulster  iiut&  f. 
live.  He  has  achieved  more  in-*:- 
year  of  patient  but  intensive  dq^^ 
macy  than  any  of  his  predecessor  -‘ 
in  quarter  of  a  century — Paged; 

JAMES  BARTHOLOMEW- f 

Lord  Alexander  helped  tq^raaore. . 
the  fortunes  of  the  company  to  th^ 
benefit  of  the  people  who  eniipjay  • 
him:  the  shareholders.  If /Mr 
Brown  disapproves  even  of  this.; . 
then  what  exactly  is  his  polity  on 
pay? _ _ _ PagfcW-’ 

PETER  RIDDELL  ;  ;  c; 

John  Major  may  receive  more' 
praise  from  historians  than  thanlfe 
from  voters  for  his  handling,  of 
Northern  Ireland.  It  is  one  of  those' 
issues  which  is  of  enormous  polit¬ 
ical  importance  but  of  fittie  imme¬ 
diate  significance  to  most 
people . Page»> 


Colder  Willingham.  American; 
novelist  and  screenwriter:  Majarv 
General  Lionel  Harrod.  former V 
Chief  of  Staff  (IntellijptaceF- 
SHAPE:  Professor  Gerard  Tay^~ 
lor,  surgeon:  Sir  Walter  BtdL  :--: 
chartered  surveyor . — ...Page2lT> 


Link  between  growth  and  a  mini¬ 
mum  wage;  unemployment  and; 
crime:  wartime  Hull's  forgotten 
anguish - - Page  19’ 


THE  TIMES  CROSSWORD  NO  19,785 


’:<£•  FORECAST  ' 


ACROSS 

I  The  first  -.person  to  cycle  on 
Bournemouth's  front  using  both 
feet  (7) 

5  Walked  when  demon  shaver 
showed  the  way  (7) 

9  Clear  return  offered  by  gold, 
import  (5) 

10  Elected  to  serve,  m  substance  in 
Europe  perhaps  (9) 

1 1  Prompt  retirement  by  top  math¬ 
ematician  (6) 

J  12  Course  warning  notified  as  antici¬ 
pated  (8) 

14  Striking  result  from  the  Belfry?  (5) 

15  Constituent'  of  potato  starter  a 

surprise  (3-6)  •  ' 

IS  Place  arranged  at  court  for  a 
^  wealthy  sort  (9) 

20  Head  cook  out  of  one  ingredient 
i>)  ■  '  . 

22  Trim  sail,  mistakenly  throush 
B  faulty  hearing  (S)  ■ 

24  Run  through  barrier  on  motor¬ 
way  when  reversing  (6) 
a  26  Parking  regulation  almost  broken 
bv  Eueenft  the  doctor's  assistant 


Solution  lo  Puzde  No  19.7S4 


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ffllSSHHEOEOPI 
EiimeHEGSia  sEsms 
a  0  0  S  C3  ID  0  13 
an@s@0  SEsanHEs 
®-  ■■■  H  ffl  S  0 
oannafs  soHHafflna 
a  h  a  a  0  a 
0fflBB@Dni3  EI1130SS 
de  a  n  a 

s  03  s  □  e  in  n  a 

023BSO  BHIIBHH000 
120000000 
®B0B!300I3®00g 


27  Execute  preliminary  drawing  for 
vessel  (5) 

28  all  the  perfumes  of  Arabia  wiU 

not  -  this  little  hand" 

[Macbeth]  (7) 

29  Arrested  and  run  in.  having 
offended  (7) 

DOWN 

1  Flower  without  carbon  would  be 
flatter  (9) 

2  Remedy  provided  by  a  general 
practitioner?  f7| 

3  Broadcast  ordering  support  for 
divisional  leader  in  heroic  action 
(7-2) 

4  Timer  failing  to  open  security 
.  device  (4) 

5  No  primary'  colour  employed  by 
rising  animal  painter  (10) 

6  Urge  to  plunge  into  river?  Quite 
■the  reverse  (5) 

7  Rest  of  story  somewhat  blue  (3-4) 

8  Old-fashioned  Cockney  disliked 
supporting  daughter  (5) 

13  .Suffer  appalling  danger  in  scene 
of  tumult  (10) 

16  Beater’s  assistant  in  the  forefront 
(9) 

17  Revived  when  given  a  drink  (9) 

19  Get  a  kick  from  riding  gelding  in 

safe  harness  (7) 

21  Game  confined  in  it  extremely 
lively,  but  put  down  in  a  clumsy 
way  (7) 

22  Cleans  up  round  quarter  and 
•  sulks  (5)  • 

23  Send  away  for  instructions  (5) 

25  Booked  performances  (4) _ 

The  Tines  Crossword  Champ  kinship. 
1995:  The  Eliminator  PazzJe  wifl 
appear  tomorrow. 

Times  Two  Crossword,  page  48 


For  the  latest  region  by  region  forecast,  24 
hours  a  day.  dicu  0891  500  followed  by  the 
appropriate  code. 

Greater  London  . 7tn 

KenLSuney,  Sussex . 702 

Doreel.HErts&lOW . .  ..  703 

Devon  &  Cornwall . . . 704 

WRtB.GtoucsAvon.Som8 . 705 

Berks.Bucha.Oon .  . 706 

Beds.Herts  &  Essex  —  .  . . 707 

Notfofc.SulfolsCambs  .  708 

Wasi  MW  A  Sth  Glam  &  Gwent .  709 

Shrops.HereUs  8  Worcs ..  -  . 710 

Central  Midlands  . 711 

East  Miotanos .  712 

Lines  a  humberade  .  .  713 

Dyted&Powys .  -  .  714 

Gwynedd  &  Ctwyd .  7is 

NW  England .  716 

W&S  racks  a  Dales  . 717 

NEEn^and . 718 

Cumbria  &  Lake  DrcJncf . .  .  ..  .  719 

SWScortand.  . 720 

W  Central  Scotland  .  ..  .721 

Ecftn  S  fite/Lotfuan  &  Borders. .  . . 722 

E  Central  Scotland  . -723 

Grampian  &EhS<*!arKh . 724 

NWScoUand . 725 

Caithness, Qricwv  &  Sheiland  . 728 

N  Ireland  . 727 

Weathercafl  &  charged  at  33p  per  mnute  (cheap 
rate!  and  49p  per  minute  at  all  other  tones 

AA  ROAD  WATCH 

For  tm?  laiesi  AA  batlicAoadworhs  inlormauon. 
24  hours  a  day.  did  0336  40i  toOcnved  by  the 
appropriate  code 
London  A  SE  traffic,  roadworks 

Area  «Whin  M2S  .  TCI 

£ss«14err*vB9dvBucte/Berhs/OKon  ...  .732 
KenL’Suney/SusserAiants  . .  .734 

MP5  London  Ob  4a)  only  . 736 

National  traffic  and  roadworks 

National  motorways . 737 

Wesi  Coursry  . 738 

wales .  ■  .  .  .  .739 

Midlands  ...  .740 

EastAngSa  .  741 

Nonh-wesl  England . 742 

Norttveasi  England .  743 

Scotland . .7*4 

Northern  Ireland . 74S 

AA  Roadwatch  is  charged  ai  39p  per  minute 
(cheap  rate}  and  *9p  per  minute  at  ail  other 
:*nes 


HIGHEST  &  LOWEST 


Monday:  Highest  day  temp:  Guernsey.  Channel 
Elands.  13G  (55F);  lowest  day  marc  Loch 
Glascamoch.  rtghtand.  3C  (37F);  highest  rainfall: 
Eakdalerrunr.  Drantnes  and  Galloway.  OSftn 
highest  sunshine:  Abadeen,  8  Shr 


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□  General:  cloud  and  rain,  with 
snow  over  hills,  will  spread  south¬ 
east  over  all  parts  followed  by 
clearer  weather  later.  Windy.  Scot¬ 
land  will  see  rain  d earing  from  the 
south  then  bright  with  sunny 
intervals  and  wintry  showers. 
Mainly  dry  in  the  east. 

In  Northern  Ireland  rain  will  dear 
in  the  afternoon.  Bright  with  show- 
era.  wintry  on  hills.  Winds 
moderating. 

□  London,  SE  England,  E  Anglia, 
Central  S  England,  E  Midlands,  E 
England,  Channel  Isles:  dry  and 
bright  in  the  morning,  douding 
over  with  rain  later.  Winds  south¬ 
west  strong  to  gale.  Max  IOC 
(50F). 

□  W  Midlands,  SW  England,  S 
Wales,  N  Wales,  NW  England, 
Lake  District,  Isle  of  Man,  Central 
N,  NE  England,  SW  Scotland,  N 


Ireland:  overcast  and  wet  in  the 
morning,  heavy  at  times,  with  snow 
on  the  hills.  Clearing  in  the 
afternoon.  Mainly  dry  later.  Winds 
occasionally  severe  gale  south¬ 
west,  moderating.  Max  9C  (48 F). 
□  Borders,  Edinburgh  &  Dundee, 
Aberdeen,  Glasgow,  Central 
Highlands,  Argyfl:  rain  or  snow  at 
first  dearing  in  tne  morning.  Bright 
or  sunny  intervals  and  showers 


□  Moray  Firth,  NE  Scotland,  NW 
Scotland,  Orkney,  Shetland:  dear 
or  sunny  intervals  and  wintry 
showers.  Winds  moderate  south¬ 
westerly.  Max  5C-7C  (41F-45F). 

□  Outlook:  bright  intervals  and 
showers.  Rain  becoming  steady 
for  a  time  then  more  blustery 
showers. 


AROUND  BRITAIN 


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r=raln;  sh-sbower  sliest:  sr-snow:  sbui;  (^thunder 


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Avtemora 

Belfast 

Brmtngham 

Bognor  R 

Boumemth 

Bristol 

Buxlon 

Cardfl 

CLadon 


Cohvyn  Bay 

Cromer 

Doncaster 

Dunbai 

Easteoun* 

Ednburgh 

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Exrrxxnh 

Fabnoutli 

Fishguard 

FoHtesUme 

Glasgow 

Guernsey 

Hastings 

HerrwLy 

Hove 

Hunstanton 

Ilfracombe 

Isle  of  Man 

Jersey 

KHoss 

Leeds 

Lerwick 

Leuchars 


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These  are  Monday's  figures 

ABROAD 


Atox'drfe 

Algiers 

Amsfdm 

Athens 

Bahrain 

Bangkok 

Barbados 

Barcelona 

Beirut 

Belgrade 

Bartn 

Bermuda 

Biarritz 

Borte'x 

Brussels 

Budapst 

B  Aires 

Cairo 

Craw  Tn 

Chicago 

Ch'church 

Cologne 


IS 

SB  S 

Cphagn 

5  41  d 

Madrid 

14  57  1 

Rome 

IS  S7s 

15  59  1 

Corfu 

18  61  s 

Majorca 

16  61  3 

Satzbura 

15  5B  8 

15 

59c 

DuMft 

5  41  5 

Malaga 

17  63  3 

SFrfaco 

14  57  S 

19  66  s 

Dubrovnik 

15  99  s 

Malta 

14  57  1 

Santiago 

20  68  C 

9 

48c 

Faro 

18  64  s 

Meiblna 

27  81  3 

S  Paulo 

22  72  r 

15 

59s 

Florence 

14  57  1 

Mexico  C 

16  61  s 

Seoti 

6  43  s 

Frankfurt 

13  55  I 

Miami 

26  79  1 

Stog'por 

31  88  1 

32 

90  s 

Funchd 

17  63  c 

Mian 

9  48  r 

Srtthofcn 

2  36c 

SB 

82  t 

Geneva 

10  SO  0 

Montreal 

-a  25  S 

Sarasb'rg 

17  63  s 

15 

59  S 

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ARTS  37-39 

Oliver  Stone: 
movies  for  an  age 
without  morality 


HOMES  41 

The  difficult 
art  of  house 
restoration 


SPORT  43-48 

Brian  Lara  books 
in  for  extended 
stay  at  Edgbaston 


BIG  MOVES 
IN  PRIVATE 
BANKING 

Focus  32, 33 


THE 


TIMES 


BUSINESS  EDITOR  Lindsay  Cook 

UK  asks  to  i 


WEDNESDAY  FEBRUARY  22  1995 


BvRossTieman 

INDUSTRIAL  CORRESPONDENT 

tTlE  GOVERNMENT  has  asked 
to  join  a  Franco-German  pro¬ 
gramme  to  build  a  common  new 
armoured  personnel  carrier  For 
Europe’s  armies. 

The  request  made  by  Roger 
Freeman,  the  Minister  of  State  for 
Procurement  at  a  meeting  in  Bonn 
ten  days  ago,  is  likely  to  provoke 
deep  alarm  among  chiefs  of  Brit- 
k  ain’s  three  armoured  vehide  com¬ 
panies  and  trigger  an  argument 
about  the  limits  oF  European 
collaboration  in  defence 
procurement 

At  a  meeting  with  senior  Minis¬ 
try  of  Defence  officials.  industry 


to  join  European  armoured  vehicle  project 


leaders  had  earlier  called  for  Brit¬ 
ain  to  shun  the  programme;  argu¬ 
ing  that  the  MoD  could  get  a  more 
appropriate  vehide;  more  cheaply, 
through  a  domestic  competition. 

The  competition  to  design  and 
supply  about  1.000  of  the  Multi-role 
Armoured  Vehicles  (MRAVs),  for 
up  to  £500  million,  is  likely  to 
determine  which  of  Britain's 
armoured  vehicle  builders  survives 
into  the  next  century.  Strong  argu¬ 
ments  in  favour  of  a  domestic 
competition  have  been  advanced  by 
Vickers,  builder  of  the  Challenger  2 
tank.  GKN,  manufacturer  of  the 
Warrior  light  tank,  and  Alvis, 
which  builds  armoured  cars. 

Alvis  has  already  cut  capacity 
savagely.  Vickers  needs  the  contract 


to  supply  the  tigh  tty-armoured  ve¬ 
hide.  which  wiH  act  as  a  “battlefield 
taxi”  when  orders  for  Challenger  2 
ran  out  in  about  2000.  GKN*S  order 
book  for  Warrior  and  Piranha 
vehicles  extends  only  to  1998. 

However,  Mr  Freeman  is  keen  to 
assist  an  “industry-led” 
rationalisation  of  Europe's  defence 
industry  into  pan-national  manu¬ 
facturers.  He  is  hoping  to  use  the 
MRAV  contest  to  trigger  an  indus¬ 
try  shakeout  and  to  ease  the 
operational  difficulties  of  soldiers, 
particularly  from  Britain  and 
France,  who  increasingly  find 
themselves  working  side  by  side 
with  different  equipment  in  the¬ 
atres  such  as  Bosnia. 

At  the  Bonn  meeting  with  his 


French  and  German  counterparts, 
Mr  Freeman  set  tough  conditions 
for  Britain  to  join  a  common 
MRAV  procurement  programme. 
Mr  Freeman  told  The  Times  that 
Britain  would  insist  upon  “an  open 
procurement  competition  between 
two  consortia”.  Each  consortium 
must  include  a  manufacturer  from 
France.  Germany  and  Britain. 

“I  think  we  could  reach  common 
agreement  here.”  Mr  Freeman  said. 
He  was  in  no  doubt  about  the 
industrial  impact  of  his  proposals 
and  said  they  would  immediately 
trigger  some  industrial 
rationalisation.  Industry  sources 
say  the  proposal  has  grave  draw¬ 
backs  for  British  manufacturers. 

France  and  Germany  established 


Nat  West  looks 
for  deals  after 
£1.6bn  profit 

By  Patricia Tehan,  banking  correspondent 


a  consortium  charged  with  design¬ 
ing  and  building  the  vehicle  last 
June.  GIAT  Industries,  the  state- 
owned  builder  of  the  Led  ere  tank, 
has  been  designated  France’s  “nat¬ 
ional  champion"  in  guns, 
armoured  vehicles  and  ammuni¬ 
tion.  It  has  formed  a  consortium 
with  another  French  manufacturer, 
Panhard,  in  a  supporting  role. 
GIATs  German  partners  are 
Mercedes-Benz  and  Krauss-Maffei, 
builder  of  the  Leopard  tank. 

Both  France  and  Germany  are 
expected  to  need  2.000  to  3.000  of 
the  armoured  vehides,  known  in 
Frame  as  the  VBM.  with  first 
deliveries  from  1997-8.  But  Britain 
needs  only  1.000  MRAVs,  with 
deliveries  starling  in  2003-5.  That 


-  "£f  ■  n  - 


would  make  it  extremely  difficult 
for  a  British  manufacturer  to  secure 
an  equal  work  share. 

Obtaining  partners  for  two  tri- 
national  consortiums  would  also 
be  tough.  GIAT  has  been  in  the  red 
for  four  years,  losing  £136  million 
in  1994,  and  is  pressing  for  a  state 
cash  injection.  RV1.  part  of  the 
newly-privatised  Renault  car 
group,  is  its  only  competitor  in 
armoured  vehides.  But  giving  the 
contract  to  any  consortium  not 
embracing  GIAT  would  throw 
state  policy  off  course. 

However.  Germany  is  believed  to 
share  Britain's  enthusiasm  for  a 
competition.  MAX  and  Thyssen- 
Henschel  might  join  forces  with 
British  manufacturers. 

_ ADRIAN  BROOKS 


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NATIONAL  Westminster 
Bank  is  looking  for  ac¬ 
quisitions  to  fill  in  weak¬ 
nesses  in  its  investment 
banking  and  Courts  private 
banking  operations. 

Derek  Wan! ess,  the  chief 
executive,  said:  “We  do  not 
rule  out  in-fill  acquisitions  if 
-  organic  growth  seemed  uneco- 
9  nomicor  inadequate." 

He  said:  “We  continue  to 
ran  the  ruler  against  the 
possibility  of  acquisitions  in 
these  markets.  We  cannot 
make  sense  of  the  numbers  at 
this  stage,  but  the  more  we 
build  up,  the  greater  the 
chance  that  something  wfll 
emerge  in  the  future." 

Mr  Wan  less  said  that 
NatWest  was  not  crying  to 
compete  with  the  Wall  Street 
investment  banking  giants, 
certainly  in  the  short  to  medi¬ 
um  term.  He  said:  “We  recog¬ 
nise  that  we  are  not  strong 
there."  NatWest  had  some 


particular  skills  and  would 
compete  where  it  had 
strength,  such  as  in  treasury 
operations,  he  said. 

He  was  speaking  as  NatWest 
unveiled  a  61  per  cent  rise  in 
prefax  profits,  to  £1.59  billion, 
in  1994.  after  bad  debts  halved 
to  £616  million:  The  profits 
exceeded  City  expectations,  as 
did  the  rise  in  the  dividend  for 
the  year,  up  17  per  cent  to  21.6p. 
The  final  payment  of  143p  is 
due  on  May  9.  Earnings  per 
share  were  80  per  cent  up.  at 
63p. 

Martin  Owen,  chief  execu¬ 
tive  of  NatWest  Markets,  the 
investment  banking  arm,  said 
that  areas  of  weakness  for  the 
bank  were  corporate  finance 
and  funds  management. 

The  bank  would  build  up 
these  areas  by  organic  growth 
and  “in -fill"  acquisitions.  F6w 
acquisition  prospects  would 
not  overlap  with  existing  busi¬ 
nesses,  he  said,  but  added: 


Persil  Power  was 
‘greatest’  setback 


By  Susan  Gilchrist 


SIR  Michael  Perry,  chairman 
of  Unilever,  admitted  yester¬ 
day  that  the  launch  of  Persil 
Power  was  the  greatest  mar¬ 
keting  setback  the  group  has 
ever  experienced. 

Unilever  launched  the  de¬ 
tergent  in  Europe  last  year 
only  to  find  thar  the  product 
damaged  clothing. 

Yesterday  it  emerged  the 
resulting  problems  cost  Uni¬ 
lever  £57  million  in  write-offs. 
However,  Sir  Michael  insisted 
that  the  lessons  had  been 
learnt 

His  remarks .  came  as 
Unilever  unveiled  a  24  per 
cent  increase  in  pre-tax  profits 
to  £238  billion  from  £1.93 
billion  in  the  year  to  Decem¬ 
ber  31.  Excluding  £490  million 
of  exceptional  charges  in  the 
j  previous  period  underlying 
earnings  rose  by  just  3  per 
cent 

Sir  Michael  described  the 
year  as  one  of  contrasting 
experiences.  A  disappointing 
performance  from  Europe 
B  clouded  a  marked  improve¬ 


ment  in  profits  from  North 
America  and  continuing 
strong  growth  from  the  rest  of 
the  world. 

A  final  dividend  of  203p 
(18.95p)  brings  the  total  payout 
to  26.81p  (25.03p)  and  will  be 
paid  to  shareholders  on  May 
19.  Tempos,  page  28 


Sir  Michael:  lessons  learnt 


“We  are  in  a  market  place 
where  we  are  over-supplied 
and  major  players  are  build¬ 
ing  up." 

NatWest  Markets  is  likely 
this  year  to  apply  for  a  Section 
20  licence  in  the  US.  which 
would  enable  it  to  acquire  a 
US  investment  bank  if  it 
wished.  NatWest  says  that  it 
would  take  12  to  18  months  to 
get  a  licence,  which  would 
enable  NatWest  Markets  m 
conduct  a  broader  range  of 
securities  business  in  the  US. 

Operating  income  was 
down  slightly,  from  £6.99 
billion  to  £6.95  billion.  Despite 
staff  cuts,  costs  rose  by  43  per 
cent,  to  £4.8  bfllion.  This  cut 
the  trading  surplus  by  11  per 
cent,  to  £114  billion. 

Staff  costs  rose  6  per  cent  to 
£276  billion  despite  a  4.000.  or 
4  per  cent,  cut  in  jobs  to  87.400 
at  the  year-end  as  the  bank 
continued  its  branch  closure 
and  reorganisation  pro¬ 
gramme  and  sold  peripheral 
businesses.  This  was  due  to  an 
LS2  million  profit-sharing 
scheme,  a  rise  of  £32  million 
on  1993,  and  a  change  in  the 
mix  of  the  “skin  base"  as 
clerical  jobs  are  cut  and  cus¬ 
tomer  contact  jobs  increased. 
Other  costs  rose  from  £989 
million  to  £1.06  billion. 

Mr  Wan! ess  said  that  137 
branches  were  closed,  making 
the  total  2416.  He  expects  a 
similar  number  to  be  cut  each 
year  for  the  next  five  years. 

Mr  Wanless  said  that  the 
bank  continued  to  invest  in 
making  existing  businesses 
more  productive.  This  would 
“strengthen  the  group  in  the 
intermediate  terra”.  In  Nat¬ 
West  UK.  costs  were  2  per  cent 
up.  because  of  productivity 
costs,  the  profit-share  scheme 
and  a  £30  provision  for  mis- 
selling  of  pension  transfers. 
Excluding  these,  said  Mr 
Wanless.  costs  would  have 
been  3  per  cent  lower. 

Mr  Wanless  said  that  in¬ 
come  was  fiat  due  to  subdued 
loan  demand. 

Lord  Alexander  of  Weedon. 
chairman,  attacked  critics 
who  call  banks  “greedy"  for 
making  profits  and  who  as¬ 
sume  that  all  profits  have  been 
earned  from  UK  customers. 
One  third  of  profits  came  from 
the  UK.  he  said. _ 

US  banks  merge,  page  26 
Pennington,  page  27 


Lord  Alexander  of  Weedon,  chairman  of  NatWest  attacked  misunderstanding  among  the  critics  of  banks'  profits 


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London  dose $378X6  ($379X5) 

*  Midday  figure  *  Friday's  dose 

Opt  out  fall  out 

Company  directors  claim  that 
the  Government’s  social 
chapter  opt-out  is  insufficient 
to  protect  businesses  in 
Britain  from  damaging 
European  employment 
legislation.  The  criticism  will 
be  felt  all  the  more  strongly 
because  it  comes  from  the 
free-raarket  and  normally 
supportive  loD.  Page  26 

Best  policy 

Guardian  Royal  Exchange, 
the  composite  insurance 
group,  said  yesterday  that  the 
industry  has  to  reorganise  in 
the  face'  of  failing  margins 
and  a  downturn  in  the 
insurance  cycle.  Page  27 


Lautro  offers 
settlement  in 
Pru  leak  case 


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By  Robert  Miller 


LAUTRO.  the  outgoing  regu¬ 
lator  for  life  companies,  has 
offered  a  substantial  settle¬ 
ment  to  a  former  female 
employee  who  was  dismissed 
after  an  independent  investi¬ 
gation  by  Simmons  & 
Simmons,  a  city  firm  of  law¬ 
yers.  The  offer  has  not  yet  been 
accepted. 

Simmons  &  Simmons  was 
appointed  last  summer  to 
pinpoint  the  source  of  a  leak  of 
highly  confidential  and  poten¬ 
tially  damaging  documents. 
These  concerned  an  informal 
Lautro  investigation  into  the 
pensions  selling  practices  of 
the  Prudential,  Britain’s  larg¬ 
est  insurer. 

Lautro,  with  the  full  approv¬ 
al  of  the  Prudential,  appointed 
Simmons  &  Simmons  to  inves¬ 
tigate  the  leak.  It  is  believed 
that  the  insurer  expected  to  be 
kept  fully  informed  of  the 
progress  of  the  investigation. 
In  the  autumn,  however,  the 


UN  attacks  Britain’s  job  policy 


By  Philip  Bassett 
INDUSTRIAL  EDITOR 

r 

THE  Government's  job  policies  are 
sharply  criticised  today  by  the  United 
m  Nations'  principal  .employment  body, 
which  proposes  that  Britain  should 
embrace  full  employment  as  its  mam 

economic  goaL  .  _  .  . 

Michael  Portillo,  the  Employment 
--  Secretary,  is  expected  to  ngect  largely  the 
k*  findings  of  a  year-long  analysis  of  world 
jobs  and  unemployment  carried  out  by 
die  UN's  International  Labour  Office. 
But  Labour  Party  leaders  will  welcome 
the  conclusions  as  an  authoritative 
rejection  of  a  central  aspect  of  tne 
Government's  economic  policies. 

John  Major,  the  Prime  Minister,  is 


expected  to  go  to  Copenhagen  in  a 
fortnight  to  join  other  world  leaders  at 
the  UN's  world  social  summit  whose 
likely  declaration  of  a  re-commitment  to 
full  employment  as  a  key  world  goal  is 
foreshadowed  in  today’s  report 

Michel  Hansenne.  the  ILO's  Director- 
GeneraL  launching  the  study,  will  reject 
die  idea  that  little  can  be  done  to  solve 
unemployment  and  will  insist  that  the 
task  of  creating  sufficient  new  jobs  to 
overcome  unemployment  under-em¬ 
ployment  and  low  pay  "ranks  as  the 
primary  challenge  for  economic  and 
social  policy  in  all  countries  at  all  levels 
of  development  across  the  globe". 

The  ILO’s  report  includes  a  range  of 
policy  prescriptions  specifically  designed 
to  help  Third  World  countries  and  the 


"transitional"  economies  of  eastern 
Europe.  But  UK  political  and  business 
leaders  will  seize  mainly  on  its  conclu¬ 
sions  about  the  jobs  record  of  the 
industrialised  countries,  and  especially 
on  the  policy  of  deregulating  the  labour 
market  which  the  Government  has 
vigorously  pursued. 

Full  employment  the  I LO  says,  played  a 
central  part  in  post-war  economic  success 
and  it  is  now  important  and  timely  for 
countries  to  revive  that  commitment  “The 
co-ordination  of  economic  policies  and  the 
operation  of  global  trade,  financial  and 
investment  systems  will  then  ne-ed  to  be 
viewed  from  the  standpoint  of  their  impact 
on  employment  outcomes." _ 

Britain  against  the  world,  page  29 


Prudential  was  told  that  the 
matter  had  been  resolved  in¬ 
ternally.  It  is  understood  the 
Prudential  has  not  been 
allowed  to  see  the  report  Last 
night  the  company  declined  to 
comment 

Esme  Chandler,  the  Lautro 
employee,  was  dismissed  after 
the  completion  of  the 
Simmons  &  Simmons  investi¬ 
gation.  She  is  understood  to 
have  alleged  wrongful  dis¬ 
missal  and  was  prepared  to 
take  her  case  to  an  industrial 
tribunal. 

Lautro.  in  the  meantime, 
has  made  a  substantial  com¬ 
pensation  offer  which  Ms 
Chandler  has  not  yet  accepted. 
Speculation,  albeit  anecdotal 
has  it  that  Ms  Chandler  was 
not  responsible  for  the  leak. 

Simmons  &  Simmons  said: 
“We  are  unable  to  comment 
whether  we  are  involved  with 
this  case  or  not" 

The  high  profile  leak  of  the 
sensitive  Lautro  documents 
led  to  a  furious  row  between 
the  regulator  and  Mick 
Newmarch.  then  chief  execu¬ 
tive  of  the  Prudential. 

Last  month  Mr  Newmarch 
quit  his  post  after  the  company 
admitted  that  his  relationship 
with  City  regulators  had  bro¬ 
ken  down  and  the  Stock 
Exchange  was  investigating 
his  dealings  in  Prudential 
shares. 

The  share  transaction  took 
place  hours  before  a  damning 
report  on  personal  pensions 
mis  selling  was  published  by 
the  Securities  and  Investments 
Board.  Treasury  sources  have 
recently  alleged  that  Mr 
Newmarch  was  aware  of  the 
contents  of  the  report  after  he 
had  a  personal  meeting  with 
Kenneth  Clarke,  the  Chancel¬ 
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proportion  in  UK  of  overseas  companies.  Over  £1 ,000m  private  investment.  Best  of  business 
company  with  Weetabix,Oxford  University  Press,  Avon  Cosmetics,  Golden  Wonder,  British  Steel... 


At  the  live  centre  of  England.  The  choice  of  top  distributors. 

Thirty  million  people  in  two  hours  rood  radius.  Heathrow,  Birmingham,  Sfansted  in  easy  reach, 
intercity.  A1  -Ml  link,  only  strategic  East-West  linlcsouth  of  the  M62,  is  Corby's  Cast  track  to 
North-South  road  arteries,  M 6,  East  coast  Euroports. 


Serviced  greenfield  sites  aplenty.  Ready  for  development.  For  sale.  For  manufacture. 

For  business.  For  services.  For  leisure.  A  million  square  feet  of  ready-to-wear  premises.  Brand 
new  business  paries.  Four-star  conference  facilities.  Backed  by  14  years'  success  in  helping 
business  to  relocate,  set-up,  prosper,  expand. 

BETTER  LIVING 

A  new  town  erf  modem  business,  social  and  leisure  amenities.  Yet  with  ail  the  traditional 
values  erf  a  mature  hardworking  community.  Only  o  stone's  throw  from  breathtaking  English 
countryside.  From  warm  brownstone  villages.  From  comfortable  pubs  and  holds. From  fine 
country  houses  and  stately  homes.  Only  an  hour  from  London. 


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PolyGram’s 

golden 

weddings 

The  low-budget  Four  Weddings 
and  a  FuneraL  nominated  for  an 
Oscar  as  best  film  in  this  year’s 
academy  awards,  has  now  grossed 
more  than  $250  million  woridwide, 
making  it  the  most  successful  British 
movie  production  of  an  time,  said 
PolyGram,  the  music  and  entertain¬ 
ment  company,  yesterday  (Martin 
Barrow  writes). 

PolyGram,  which  produced  Four 
Weddings,  received  Oscar  nomina¬ 
tions  for  no  fewer  than  five  films 
earlier  this  month.  Hie  film  division, 
established  three  years  ago.  again 
failed  to  make  a  profit  last  year, 
however,  losing  42  million  guilders 
(£16  million). 

The  company  reported  a  20  per 
cent  rise  in  net  income  to  FI 738 
mill  inn  in  1994,  from  FI  614  million  in 
the  previous  12  months,  under¬ 
pinned  by  successes  in  the  music 
business. 

Best-selling  classical  titles,  includ¬ 
ed  Decca  London's  Three  Tenors, 
which  sold  a  further  one  million 
copies,  taking  its  total  to  more  than  II 
million  audio  and  video  sales. 

PolyGram  is  80  per  cent  owned  by 
Philips  Electronics. 


Success  for  Three  Tenors  (with  conductor  Zubin  Metha)  has  been  to  the  tune  of  II  million  audio  and  video  sales  for  Decca  London 


US  banks 
merge  in 
$3.7bn  deal 

From  Sean  Mac  Carthaigh 

IN  NEW  YORK 

TWO  Boston  banks  are  to 
merge,  creating  a  powerful 
regional  force  and  one  of  the 
ten  largest  banks  in  America. 
Fleet  Financial  said  yesterday 
it  would  acquire  Shawmut 
National  in  a  share  exchange 
deal  worth  $3.7  billion.  The 
merger  will  mean  the  loss  of 
3,000 jobs. 

The  banks  expect  the  trans¬ 
action  to  be  completed  by  the 
end  of  this  year.  Headquar¬ 
tered  in  Boston,  the  new 
company  will  be  called  Fleet 
Financial  Group  and  will  have 
more  than  $80  billion  in  assets 
and  $50  billion  in  deposits.  It 
will  be  the  biggest  bank  in  the 
region. 

The  firms  said  yesterday 
they  expected  to  save  about 
$400  million  annually,  or  14 
per  cent  of  expenses,  because 
of  the  merger.  Much  of  this 
will  come  after  the  new  bank 
sheds  about  10  per  cent  of  its 
30.000  employees. 

The  banks  said  the  com¬ 
pany  would  take  a  $400 
million  charge  to  cover  merger 
expenses. 


Directors  fear  opt-out 
will  not  protect  business 


By  Philip  Bassctt,  industrial  editor 


COMPANY  directors  claim 
that  the  Government's  social 
chapter  opt-out  is  insufficient 
to  protect  businesses  in  Britain 
from  damaging  European  em¬ 
ployment  legislation. 

The  criticism  of  the  opt-out 
from  the  social  chapter  of  the 
Maastricht  treaty  will  be  felt 
all  the  more  strongly  by  UK 
ministers  since  it  comes  from 
the  free-market  and  normally 
highly  supportive  Institute  of 
Directors. 

The  loD.  in  research  pub¬ 
lished  today  on  the  impact  in 
Britain  of  Brussels  legislation 
providing  for  new  European 
Works  Councils  (EWCs) 
makes  dear  that  it  supports 
the  opt-out  as  highly  desir¬ 
able.  but  the  institute's  ques¬ 
tioning  of  its  strength  is  likely 
to  irritate  ministers  already 


facing  strong  pressure  from 
Brussels  for  Britain  to  aban¬ 
don  it  next  year. 

Tim  Melville-Ross.  the  loD 
Director-General,  says:  “It  is 
clear  that  the  UK  opt-out  is 
insufficient  to  protea  business 
from  obsolete  and  damaging 
European  legislation.  The  loD 
will  be  pressing  for  a  review  of 
the  works  council  directive  as 
a  matter  of  urgency.” 

Directors'  leaders  will  am¬ 
plify  their  opposition  to  EWCs 
at  an  loD  conference  on  works 
coundls  today.  The  institute 
says  it  finds  grudging  compli¬ 
ance  with  the  EWC  directive 
among  the  UK  companies 
likely  to  be  affected  by  it 

In  spite  of  the  opt-out. 
British-based  multinationals 
will  have  to  set  up  EWCs  if 
they  have  1,000  or  more  em¬ 


ployees  in  member  states  oth¬ 
er  than  the  UK,  with  at  least 
150  employees  in  two  different 
states. 

The  survey  is  based  on 
detailed  telephone  interviews 
with  44  companies  —  a  signifi¬ 
cant  proportion  of  those  likely 
to  be  affected  by  the  EWC 
directive.  Although  none  of  the 
companies  would  allow  itself 
to  be  named  on  the  grounds 
that  negotiations  were  sensi¬ 
tive.  a  quarter  of  those  sur¬ 
veyed  are  talking  to  unions  on 
setting  up  an  EWC  while  a 
further  55  per  cent  are  actively 
preparing  corporate  strategies 
in  advance  of  negotiations. 

Although  most  companies 
remain  “overwhelmingly  op¬ 
posed”  to  including  UK  opera¬ 
tions  in  any  EWC  they 
eventually  establish,  three- 


fifths  fear  strong  union  pres¬ 
sure  to  do  so.  One  company 
criticised  the  Government  for 
failing  to  help  businesses  to 
resist  the  unions. 

The  IoD  says  that  the  re¬ 
search  demonstrates  that  its 
concern  about  the  damaging 
impact  of  EWCs  on  companies 
and  competitiveness  is  correct 
□LHC  import  businesses  stress 
their  value  to  Britain’s  trade  in 
a  survey  estimating  that  more 
than  10  per  cent  of  all  the  UK's 
imports  are  re-exported,  con¬ 
tributing  more  than  £14  billion 
to  the  export  trade  figures.  The 
survey,  by  Lloyds  Bank  and 
the  British  Importers'  Confed¬ 
eration.  says  that  the  contribu¬ 
tion  of  importers  is 
underestimated. 

UK  stands  alone,  page  29 


Expro  to  be  capitalised  at  £100m 


TOURIST  RATES 


Bonk  Bank 

Buys  Sens 

Australia  S..—  Z23  2.06 

Austria  Set)  —  17A5  1535 

Belgium  Fr  51.13  46-83 

ConadaS. _  2410  2.150 

Cyprus  CypE  .  0.766  0.711 

Denmark  Kr  _.  944  9.04 

Finland  Mkk  -  740  7.15 

France  Fr _  847  742 

Germany  Dm  .  2.49  2-28 

Greece  Dr .  389.00  36440 

Hong  Kong  S  1245  1145 

Ireland  Pi  _ _  1.05  047 

Israel  -  54542  44042 

Italy  Ura -  2625.00  2470.00 

Japan  Yen _  188.00  15240 

Malta -  0411  0458 

NethertdsGW  2.774  2444 

Norway  Kr 1048  1046 

Portugal  Esc  ..  25340  235.00 

S  Africa  Rd ....  reS.  545 

Spain  Pta -  211.00  197.00 

Sweden  Kr _  12.15  1145 

Swizeriand  fr  Z10  142 

Turkey  Lira ...  refer  628484 

USAS _  1477  1447 

Rates  lor  &maH  denomination  bark  notes 
only  as  suppled  by  Barclays  Bank  PIC. 
Different  rates  apply  to  trawAare' 
cheques.  Rates  as  at  dosa  of  trading 
yesterday. 


By  Philip  Pangalos 

EXPRO  International  Group, 
the  oilfield  services  company 
created  through  a  £53  million 
management  buyout  from 
FI  extech  in  1992,  will  be 
capitalised  at  more  than  £100 
million  when  its  shares  begin 
trading  on  the  stock  market 
next  month. 

Expro  provides  products 
and  services  to  most  big  oil 
groups.  More  than  half  of  its 
business  is  outside  the  UK. 

The  placing,  which  is  spon¬ 
sored  by  Robert  Fleming,  is 
expected  to  raise  more  than 
£50  million  to  repay  debt  and 
redeem  preference  shares,  vir¬ 
tually  eliminating  Expro's 
current  balance  sheet  debt  of 
about  £51  million.  Cazenove  is 
broker  to  the  issue. 

Expro  made  an  operating 
profit  of  £9.7  million  in  the 
nine  months  to  December  31, 
on  turnover  of  £52.9  million. 


Expro's  Kevan  Feamley.  left  Colin  Ainger  and  John  Dawson,  chief  executive 


it  forecasts  a  15  per  cent 
advance  in  operating  profits 
to  £12  million  in  the  year  to 
March  31.  Impact  day  is  on 
March  14,  with  dealings  due 
to  begin  on  March  28. 


□  Shares  in  Zotefoams,  the 
specialist  polyethylene  foam 
maker,  will  be  priced  at  145p 
each,  capitalising  the  group  at 
£52.6  million,  when  it  is 
floated  later  this  month.  The 


placing,  by  NatWest  Markets, 
will  raise  £23.4  million,  of 
which  some  £142  million  is 
new  money.  Cazenove  is  bro¬ 
ker  to  the  issue.  Dealings  are 
due  to  start  on  February  28. 


Britain  to 
create  open 
market  in 
gilt  repos 

By  Janet  Bush 

ECONOMICS  CORRESPONDENT 

THE  Government  yesterday 
said  that  it  was  going  ahead 
with  plans  to  create  an  open 
market  in  gilt  repos,  a  move  it 
believes  will  improve  the  eff¬ 
iciency  and  liquidity  of  the 
market  and  reduce  the  cost  of 
financing  the  budget  deficit 
It  is  hoped  that  the  new  mar¬ 
ket  will  stan  ai  the  beginning  of 
next  year.  The  Treasury  said 
that  transition  to  the  new  sys¬ 
tem  would  cost  about  £100 
million  in  the  1995-1996  tax  year 
bin  a  negligible  amount  after 
that.  The  front-loaded  costs 
should  be  “offset  and  substan¬ 
tially  exceeded"  by  lower  yields 
and"  therefore  lower  borrowing 

costs  for  the  Government. 

In  deciding  to  go  ahead  with 
the  repo  market,  the  Treasury 
has  accepted  the  argument 
that  overseas  investors  wifi  be 
more  attracted  to  the  British 
government  bond  market- 
other  major  government 
bond  markets  already  operate 
repo  markets  and  have  a 
higher  proportion  of  foreign 
holdings  of  gilts  than  the 
British  market 
The  Treasury  estimates  that 
it  could  eventually  save  £25 
million  a  year  in  public  spend¬ 
ing  for  every  one  basis  point 
off  gilt  yields. 

A  repo  is  the  sale  of  a  bond 
with  an  agreement  to  repur¬ 
chase  it  at  a  fixed  price  and 
time  in  the  future.  In  effect 
one  party  lends  a  certain 
amount  of  gilts  to  the  other  in 
return  for  cash. 

As  things  stand,  holders  of 
gilt-edged  stock  can  lend  gflts 
in  return  for  a  fee  but,  unless 
they  are  authorised  gilt-edged 
market-makers,  they  are  not 
allowed  to  borrow  stock  and 
therefore  take  out  short  posit¬ 
ions  in  the  marker.  This  kind 
of  transaction  will,  under  the 
new  system,  be  available  to 
institutional  investors. 


Pennington,  page  27 


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Courage  to  drop 
guest  beer  penalty 


By  Eric  Reguly 


COURAGE,  the  second  larg¬ 
est  brewer,  will  no  longer 
penalise  tied  public  house 
tenants  who  buy  cask  ales 
from  competing  suppliers. 

An  announcement  follows 
complaints  to  the  Office  of 
Fair  Trading  that  Courage 
had  breached  supply  agree¬ 
ments  reached  under  the  Beer 
Orders  of  1989.  These  said 
that  large  brewers  must  allow 
tenants  to  purchase  one  guest 
ale  from  any  supplier  of  their 
choice,  and  not  be  financially 
penalised  for  doing  so. 

Courage  admitted  that  it 
sometimes  had  withdrawn 
volume  discounts  if  its  pubti- 
cans. bought  cask  ales  from 
suppliers  other  than  Courage. 
But  Courage,  while  not  dis¬ 
couraging  the  purchase  of 
competing  guest  ales,  will 


offer  incentives  to  tenants 
who  stick  with  the  company. 

A  Courage  spokesman  said 
the  new  guest  ale  policy  was 
"clarification  of  a  slightly 
obscure  piece  of  legislation”. 

Sir  Bryan  Carsberg,  Direc¬ 
tor-General  of  Fair  Trading, 
said:  "Since  the  company  has 
now  agreed  to  amend  its  prac¬ 
tices.  I  see  no  need  to  take 
further  action.  Nevertheless,  I 
am  concerned  by  recent  re¬ 
ports  in  the  trade  press  alleg¬ 
ing  actions  of  this  kind  by 
other  brewers.” 

The  OFTs  inquiry  into 
guest  beers  is  not  directly 
related  to  its  probe  into  brew¬ 
ers*  wholesale  prices.  The 
OFT  is  investigating  whether 
tied  tenants  are  charged  high¬ 
er  prices  for  beer  than  inde¬ 
pendent  pub  owners. 


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NEWCASTLE  Building  Society  has  announced  a  record  ; 
increase  in  profits  in  spite  of  a  subdued  ho^mg  ngik^v 
led  to  a  £17  million  fall  in  mortgage  aiding  to  ElKmfflto.  ; 
Profits  rose  10.6  per  cent  to  £15.4  million  m  foe 
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billion,  me  society,  which  also  opened  an  offshore  banking  ' 
operation  based  in  Gibraltar,  acquired  the  shares  tt  datnot/; 
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Short  to  take  over  at  UB 

SIR  ROBERT  CLARKE,  66.  chairman  of  United  Biscuits,  fc  i 
to  retire  from  the  board  after  34  years  with  foe  company-  He ; 
will  be  succeeded  by  Colin  Short,  60,  an  executive  diredor  of  , 

IQ,  who  has  been  a  non-executive  director  on  UB"s  boardte 
almost  three  years.  Sir  Robert  said  Mr  Short  had  made.anr 
important  contribution  to  foe  development  of  group  sfrateg^ 
and  had  been  the  board's  nominated  successor  as  chairman 
for  some  time.  He  has  a  strong  international  background 
with  particular  expertise  in  the  Pacific  region,  where  UB  isz  j 
keen  to  expand.  He  leaves  1CI  in  April. 

TNT  profits  soar  ^ 

TNT,  foe  Australian  transport  group,  has  reported  a  227.9 
per  cent  leap  in  profits  to  A$73.10  million  (£34  million)  inihe 
six  months  to  Droember  31,  from  A$2229  million  in  foe  first 
half  of  the  previous  year.  The  comparer  said  the  improvement 
reflected  strong  performances  from  Britain,  Germany  and 
Australia.  There  will  be  no  return  yet  to  dividend  payments. 

Over  the  past  two  years,  the  company  has.  sold  more  than 
A$320  million  worth  of  non-core  assets-,  after  a  period  of 
heavy  losses  and  high  debt  levels.  Revenue  rose  to  A$3.06 
billion  from  A$2R5  billion. 

Macro  4  lifts  interim 

MACRO  4.  the  independent  computer  software  company, 
offset  tiie  impact  of  difficult  trading  conditions  in  the 
mainframe  sector  by  lifting  sales  of  its  mid-range  products 
and  maintaining  a  tight  control  on  costs.  In  the  half-year  to 
December  31,  profits  rose  to  £5.7  million  before  tax  from  £5.4 
million,  on  turnover  almost  unchanged  at  £123  million.  The 
interim  dividend  is  increased  to  8.6p  a  share  from  8.02p,- 
payable  on  May  1 .  from  earnings  of  16.7p  a  share,  rising  from 
16p.  In  November,  the  company  acquired  1.1  million  of  its 
own  shares  for  cancellation  at  a  cost  of  £4.76  million. 


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itself  a  target  of  earning  an 

hnSS3®6. 173  cent  on  s^are- 
J?Pr  .over  the  banking 
Q'Cie,  Lord  Alexander’s  “new" 
2S“  *L  Natwest  Group  has 

!!J*e.car)  yet  be  sure  what  stage 
tnebanking  cycle  has  reached 

Over  the  past  two  years, 
economic  recovery  has  helped  to 
boost  group  pre-tax  profits  from 
MOO  miUion  to  £1.6  billion 
“trough  its  banks  having  to 
provide  far  less  against  bad  and 
doubtful  debts.  Given  the  greater 
awareness  of  risk  these  days, 
there  should  be  a  further  £100 
million- £200  million  to  come 
from  lower  provisions,  but  that 
phase  is  really  over. 

By  the  second  half  of  1994, 
however,  investment  banking 
Proms  had  turned  down,  albeit 
NatWest  Markets  has  made 
itself  more  stable  than  some  by 
specialising  in  securities  and 
treasury  operations.  Investment 
banks,  like  stock  market  prices, 
can  be  one  of  the  first  forward 
indicators  of  the  cycle.  NatWest’s 
own  shares  sell  at  only  7.7  times 
1994  earnings,  suggesting  that 
the  City  is  not  looking  for  much 
medium-term  growth. 

The  conventional  cycle  may, 
however,  not  be  much  of  a  guide 
this  time.  The  growth  normally 
seen  in  business  lending  as 
economic  recovery  blossoms  has 


□  Riding  the  banking  cycle  □  Gilt  repurchase  market  needs  placid  waters  □  Minister  spells  out  realities 

N atW est  thinks  long 


yet  to  make  any  appearance.  The 
group’s  risk-weighted  assets, 
mainly  lending,  stagnated  in 
1994  and  are  lower  than  five 
years  ago.  Tougher  lending  poli¬ 
cies  and  risk  management, 
though  less  in  evidence  at 
Natwest  than  some  rivals,  have 
tended  to  stifle  natural  growth  so 
for.  But  that  leaves  well  man¬ 
aged  banks  with  a  problem. 
They  have  money  to  lend,  over¬ 
heads  to  spread  and  momentum 
to  sustain.  But  they  want  to  avoid 
getting  involved  in  yet  another  of 
those  easy  lending  splurges  that 
go  horribly  wrong  and  regularly 
make  bankers  a  laughing  stock. 

Lloyds  is  trying  to  resolve  this 
dilemma  by  buying  Cheltenham 
&  Gloucester's  snare  of  the 
housing  market.  NatWest  rejects 
that  approach  and  is  still  selling 
a  few  odd  businesses,  though  it 
has  bought  in  America  to  rebuild 
in  retail  banking.  Its  main 
answer  is  to  spread  abroad, 
more  carefully  this  time,  and  to 
invest  in  selected  businesses  such 
as  life  assurance,  investment 
banking  and  international  pri¬ 
vate  banking,  helped  by  the 
Coutts  brand.  It  would  like  to 
buy  an  American  investment 


bank,  but  has  not  rushed.  Sev¬ 
eral  have  come  and  gone,  though 
another  interesting  play  is  now 
available. 

This  strategy  looks  more  risky 
in  the  short  term  but  safer  over 
toe  long  haul.  The  immediate 
effect  has  been  to  boost  costs  by  a 


staff-annoying  cuts  in  BritU... 
high  street  banking.  These  extra 
overheads  account  for  most  of  an 
11  per  cent  foil  in  trading  profits 
before  provisions,  which  did  not 
please  City  analysts.  When  bank 
profits  are  becoming  politically 
embarrassing  again,  however, 
this  could  prove  shrewd  if  the 
extra  overheads  deliver  business. 

Yielding  to  calls 
for  repo  market 

□  THE  establishment  of  a  re¬ 
purchase  market  in  gilts  was 
inevitable  but  has  taken  a 
surprisingly  long  time  to  oome. 
In  many  ways,  London's  finan¬ 
cial  markets  have  long  been  for 
more  sophisticated  than  their 
counterparts  in  Europe  and 
London  dwarfs  Frankfort  and 
Paris  as  a  financial  centre.  Yet, 


PENNINGTON 

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repo  markets  were  established  in 
France  and  Germany  first 

The  advent  of  open  repos  is 
potentially  the  most  far-reaching 
change  in  the  gilt  market,  apart 
from  the  auction  system,  since 
Big  Bang  in  1996.  Its  belated 
coming  may  owe,  as  one  leading 
gilt  commentator  put  it,  to  a 
philosophy  within  the  Bank  of 
England  of  “one  miracle  at  a 
time". 

Now  that  the  Bank  and  the 
Treasury  have  eventually  acced¬ 
ed  to  the  will  of  the  market — and 
particularly  to  non-domestic  gilt- 
edged  market  makers  and  their 
overseas  institutional  investor 
clients  —  great  claims  are  befog 
made  for  the  innovation. 

The  Treasury  talked  enthu¬ 
siastically  yesterday  about  the 


gap  between  the  cost  of  borrow¬ 
ing  In  Britain  and  the  relatively 
lower  cost  in  America.  France 
and  Germany.  The  cost,  officials 
estimated,  is  some  100  basis 
points  higher  than  fo  the  US  and 
60  basis  points  above  Prance. 

At  least  some  of  this  premium 
was  being  put  down  to  the  lade  of 
flexibility  conferred  by  a  repo 
market.  But  this  is  a  touch 
disfogenous.  Risk  premia  in  the 
British  government  bond  market 
have  substantially  been  because 
of  the  vagaries  of  British  eco¬ 
nomic  policy.  Prime  among  these 
are  a  poor  relative  record  on 
inflation  and  periodic  crises  fo 
sterling. 

The  nope  is  that  the  new  repo 
market  will,  from  the  beginning 
of  next  year,  attract  more  foreign 
investors  and  so  lower  yields. 
But,  so  near  to  the  election,  that 
seems  a  forlorn  hope  fo  the  near 
future.  Foreign  investors  have 
been  bailing  out  of  gilts  and 
sterling,  a  painful  protest  against 
disarray  within  the  Government 
and  are  not  likely  to  find  British 
assets  any  more  popular  for  the 
rest  of  this  Parliament. 

In  more  placid  political  times, 
the  repo  market  may  come  into 


its  own  and  make  a  marginal 
difference  to  borrowing  costs. 
But  there  will  be  no  short-terra 
dividend  for  this  Government. 

Working  together, 
on  the  wrong  box 

□  BRITAIN  may  never  again 
develop  a  fighter  plane,  tank  or 
frigate  unaided.  Modem  weap¬ 
ons  systems  are  so  complex,  their 
cost  so  huge,  that  only  by 
collaborating  can  European  na¬ 
tions  now  afford  the  defence 
equipment  they  need  at  a  price 
that  tits  peacetime  priorities. 

Working  together,  with  a 
continent-wide  market  for  their 
products,  Europe’s  weapons 
makers  should  be  able  to  match 
the  scale  economies,  of  their 
American  and  Russian  counter¬ 
parts  and  remain  at  the  forefront 
of  technology.  Export  prospects 
will  be  enhanced,  and  any  tears 
of  European  conflict  reduced. 

Roger  Freeman,  Britain's  de¬ 
fence  procurement  minister,  has 
recognised  this  reality,  and  had 
the  good  sense  to  spell  it  out.  both 
to  the  Commons  and  to  the 
public.  With  commendable  en¬ 


ergy.  he  has  set  about  encourag¬ 
ing  Europe's  weapons  makers  to 
develop  closer  links. 

His  proposal  to  join  the 
Franco-German  armoured  ve¬ 
hicle  programme  nevertheless 
provokes  a  question.  How  far 
down  the  hierarchy  of  technol¬ 
ogy  need  collaboration  extend? 

Britain  wants,  fo  the  words  of 
one  industrialist,  “an  armoured 
box  on  wheels,  with  a  pop-gun," 
procured  by  competitive  tender, 
in  the  next  century.  France  wants 
a  more  sophisticated  machine, 
built  by  its  national  champion, 
with  foreign  partners,  in  three 
years  time.  Germany  wants  the 
best  of  all  worlds. 

Forcing  British  firms  into  a 
Euro-contest  over  the  wrong 
product  would  do  them,  and  the 
taxpayer,  no  favours.  In  this 
case,  the  minister  might  do  well 
to  keep  his  options  open. 

Mortgage  gap 

□  MORTGAGE  lenders  will 
feel  happier  about  the  shortage 
of  business  if  they  read  a  paper 
by  insurance  broker  Peter  Dale, 
which  foresees  defaults  multiply¬ 
ing  fourfold  as  a  result  of  the 
Budget  cuts  in  income  support 
for  mortgage  interest  after  Octo¬ 
ber.  In  many  cases,  insurance 
should  eventually  fill  the  gap  but 
policies  tailored  to  meet  this  new 
risk  have  yet  to  be  designed,  let 
alone  marketed. 


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Guardian  Royal 
says  insurance 
must  reorganise 


By  Sarah  Bagnall 

INSURANCE  CORRESPONDENT 

GUARDIAN  Royal  Ex¬ 
change.  the  composite  insur¬ 
ance  group,  said  yesterday 
that  die  industry  has  to 
reorganise  in  the  face  of  foiling 
margins  and  a  downturn  fo 
the  insurance  cycle. 

The  company  has  made  an 
unexpected  £28  million  excep¬ 
tional  charge  against  1994 
profits  to  cover  reorganisation 
costs  in  the  UK.  where  more 
than  500  jobs  are  to  be  cut,  of 
which  400  are  to  go  on  the 
^  general  insurance  side  over 
9  the  next  two  years,  reducing 
tiie  general  workforce  by  10 
per  cent  A  further  100  jobs  are 
going  at  head  office  and 
among  information  technol¬ 
ogy  staff. 

The  exceptional  charge  also 
covers  reorganisation  at 
Albingia,  the  German  opera¬ 
tion,  and  the  company’s 
American  operations.  The  life 
side  is  not  immune  to  job  cuts, 
but  the  £11  million  associated 
cost  is  absorbed  by  the  life 
fond. 

Despite  the  exceptional 
charge,  GRE’s  trading  profits 
leapt  63  per  cent  in  the  year  to 
December  31.  rising  from  £183 


Robins:  warning 

million  to  £298  million.  The 
final  dividend,  payable  on 
July  3,  was  lifted  to  5.4p, 
making  a  total  of  S_25p,  up  8.6 
per  cent  on  last  year. 

The  advances  were  better 
than  the  market  expected  and 
the  shares  rose  4p  to  177p. 

John  Robins,  recently  in¬ 
stalled  as  chief  executive,  said: 
“I  am  pleased  that  the  strong 
trading  position  has  been 
maintained  throughout  1994, 
with  all  major  territories  con¬ 
tributing  to  our  significant 
advance  in  trading  profit" 
GRE  takes  unrealised  as 
well  as  realised  investment 


gains  against  profits  and  as  a 
result  it  made  a  pre-tax  loss  of 
£75  million,  compared  with  a 
£751  million  profit  last  time. 
The  sharp  deterioration  re¬ 
flects  a  £373  million  invest¬ 
ment  loss  fo  1994.  caused  by 
the  fall  in  world  investment 
markets  during  the  first  half, 
against  a  £568  million  gain  in 
1993. 

The  picture  is  brighter  at  the 
underwriting  level  The  gener¬ 
al  insurance  operations  made 
an  underwriting  profit  of  E15 
million  against  a  loss  of  £119 
million  last  time.  This  is  a 
sharp  turnround  in  fortunes. 

The  UK.  the  group’s  largest 
territory,  lifted  general  insur¬ 
ance  trading  profits  from  £74 
million  to  £160  million,  while 
Albingia  made  a  trading  profit 
of  £14  million,  against  a  loss  of 
£13  million  last  time. 

Guardian  Direct,  the  direct 
insurance  operation  Launched 
last  March,  has  31.000  policy¬ 
holders.  slightly  fewer  than 
the  target  of40.000-50.000. 

The  life  operations  lifted 
operating  profits  by  £2  million 
to  £25  million  on  premium 
income  up  from  £758  million 
to  £862  million. 


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Dye  maker  begins 
review  of  business 

By  Neil  Bennett,  deputy  business  editor 


YORKSHIRE  CHEMICALS, 
the  specialist  dyes  and  tanning 
chemicals  group,  has  started  a 
fundamental  review  of  its 
business,  looking  at  ways  of 
expanding  itin  the  second  half 
of  the  decade.  The  group 
announced  the  review  after 
publishing  record  profits  of 
£144  million  for  1994.  up  10 
percent 

Phillip  Lowe,  the  chairman, 
said  that  the  review  had  been 
prompted  by  the  company's 
rate  of  expansion.  Yorkshire 
plans  to  expand  its  dyes  man¬ 
ufacturing  plant  at  its  Leeds 
site  towards  the  end  of  the 
year,  but  will  soon  run  out  of 
space  at  its  existing  site.  The 
review  will  decide  whether  to 
open  a  new  site  or  move 
completely. 

The  company’s  profit 
growth  stalled  fo  the  second 
half  because  of  strong  price 
competition  fo  the  dyes  busi¬ 
ness.  Yorkshire  also  suffered 
the  loss  of  £5  million  turnover 
and  $350,000  profit  after  it 
closed  its  chemicals 


merchanting  business  fo  the 
US  at  the  start  of  1994. 

Yorkshire's  turnover  rose 
by  7  per  cent  in  1994,  to  £120 
million-  Earnings  per  share 
also  increased  by  7  per  cent, 
to  223p. 

The  group  is  paying  a 
5.85p  final  dividend  on  April 
6.  to  make  8.6p,  up  by  6  per 
cent 

Tempos,  page  28 


Lowe:  record  profits 


AIM  wins 
boost  from 
tax  ruling 

By  Phi  up  Pangalos 

THE  Alternative  Investment 
Market  (AIM),  the  new  mar¬ 
ket  for  shares  in  smaller 
companies  that  is  due  to  start 
on  June  19.  has  received  a  tax 
boost  with  an  announcement 
by  Sir  George  Young,  Finan¬ 
cial  Secretary  to  the  Treasury, 
that  securities  dealt  fo  the 
AIM  will  be  treated  as  un¬ 
quoted  securities  for  tax 
purposes. 

This  means  that  various  tax 
reliefs  remain  available  to 
companies  moving  from  deal¬ 
ings  under  Rule  4.2  to  the 
AIM,  and  become  available  to 
those  companies  formerly 
dealt  on  the  Unlisted  Securi¬ 
ties  Market  that  decide  to  be 
dealt  on  the  AIM  rather  than 
seek  a  full  listing. 

The  tax  reliefs  that  are 
available  to  unquoted  securi¬ 
ties  in  dude  inheritance  tax 
relief,  capital  gains  tax  re¬ 
investment  relief,  and  reliefs 
under  the  Enterprise  Invest¬ 
ment  Scheme  and  Venture 
Capital  Trusts. 


Sedgwick  advances  34% 


By  Our  Insurance 
Correspondent 


SEDGWICK  Group,  the  in¬ 
surance  broking  group,  yes¬ 
terday  said  pre-tax  profits 
leapt  34  per  cent  to  £94.4 
million  in  the  year  to  Decem¬ 
bers!. 

Sax  Riley,  chief  executive, 
a  said  die  growth  endorsed  the 
group’s  strategy  put  in  place 
three  years  ago.  “Our  strategy 
will  continue  to  be  one  of 
expansion  —  through  organic 
growth,  cross-selling,  acquisi¬ 
tions  when  the  right  opportu- 


.  -■% 

&  \ 


nities  arise,  and  through  ven¬ 
turing  into  new  and  comple¬ 
mentary  markets,"  he  said. 

The  final  dividend,  payable 
on  March  16.  was  lifted  to  3.5p, 
making  a  total  for  the  year  of 
65p,  up  from  6p  last  time.  The 
dividend  is  being  paid  out  of 
earnings  of  1  Ip  a  share,  up  22 
per  cent  from  last  time  in  spite 
of  die  issue  of  new  shares.  The 
shares  rose  2p  to  162p. 

The  group  made  an  £18.1 
million  exceptional  charge  to 
cover  write-off  of  property  and 
IT  costs  and  run-off  costs. 
These  were  offset  by  exception¬ 


al  disposal  profits  of  £18-2 
million.  Brokerage  and  fees 
rose  17  per  cent  to  £888.7 
million,  of  which  underlying 
sales  growth  was  3  per  cent 
Interest  and  investment  in¬ 
come  fell  15  per  cent  to  E42.6 
million,  reflecting  the  good 
bond  profits  made  in  1993. 

Overall  expenses  increased 
15  per  cent  to  £829.1  million,  of 
which  14  percentage  points 
reflect  the  acquisition  of  Noble 
Lowndes,  the  consultancy 
benefits  company,  in  1993.  As 
a  result,  underlying  expenses 
advanced  I  per  cent. 


CentreGold  shares  slump  after  profit  warning 


SHARES  fo  CentreGold  slumped  37p 
to  60p  after  the  computer  and  video 
games  distributor  issued  a  profits 
warning  wiping  nearly  £16  million  off 
the  company’s  market  value. 

CentreGold,  floated  on  the  stock 
market  at  125p  a  share  fo  October  1993. 
will  report  an  interim  loss  of  about 


£3.6  million  in  the  six  months  to 
January.  The  company,  which  made  a 
pretax  profit  of  £4  million  fo  its  last 
full  year,  will  axe  its  interim  dividend 
(0.8p  last  time). 

Trading  has  been  adversely  affected 
by  “a  significant  setback  in  demand 
for  cartridge  video  games  fo  the 


European  and  American  markets". 
First-half  sales  fell  to  about  £41  million 
from  £53  million.  Stock  provisions  wfll 
amount  to  £2.9  million. 

The  company  blames  excess  supply 
in  a  competitive  market,  which  eroded 
margins  during  the  Christmas  period 
There  is  also  consumer  resistance  to 


purchasing  older  technologies  ahead 
of  the  launch  of  video  games  hard¬ 
ware  systems  using  CD  technologies, 
last  October,  Geoff  Brown,  chief 
executive,  cut  his  stake  in  the  company 
to  29  per  cent,  raising  £136  million 
after  he  sold  138  million  shares  at 
98p.  Tempos,  page  28 


The  British  company  that 

developed  the  world's  most  advanced 

SAFETY  PROCESSOR  for  RAILWAYS, 


that  is  in  the  world  forefront  of 


LEAD  ACID  BATTERY  TECHNOLOGY, 


is  also  the  British  company  whose 
GOLF  BALLS  are  chosen  by  the  world's 


leading  players . 


BTR.  INVESTI  N-C^  F  Q_R  VALUE 

BTR  pic  •  SILVERTOWN  HOUSE  -  VINCENT  SQUARE  •  L  O  N  D  O  N  S  Wl  P  2  P  L 


28  MARKETS  /  ANALYSIS 


the  times 


^/cnNESPAY  FEBRUARY  22J993:  j 


STOCK  MARKET 


MICHAELCLARK 


Equities  stay  over  3,000 
in  spite  of  sterling  jitters 


THE  equity  market  managed 
to  stay  above  the  3,000  level  in 
spite  of  another  nervous  per¬ 
formance  from  sterling  and 
Government  securities  extend¬ 
ing  their  recent  losses.  But  it 
was  a  close  run  thing,  with 
London  failing  to  draw 
strength  from  a  return  to 
business  after  the  President’s 
Day  celebrations  on  Wall 
Street,  where  prices  were 
marked  higher  at  the  outset 
following  agreement  between 
the  US  and  Mexico  on  a  $20 
billion  aid  package. 

Prices  traded  in  narrow 
limits  for  much  of  the  day  with 
the  FT-SE 100  index  having  to 
endure  early  futures  related 
selling,  which  saw  it  touch  the 
3.012  level.  The  subsequent 
rally  lacked  substance  and  the 
rise  was  eventually  halved, 
with  the  index  finishing  just 
4.8  up  at  3,023.4. 

Turnover  was  again  on  the 
low  side,  with  just  456  million 
shares  traded  in  spite  of  talk 
of  a  large  programme  trade 
being  conducted  by  stockbro¬ 
ker  UBS. 

Northern  Electric  marked 
time  for  much  of  the  day.  with 
City  speculators  anxiously 
awaiting  the  increased  terms 
from  Trafalgar  House.  The 
current  terms  value  Northern 
at  £10.48.  with  whispers  in  the 
market-place  claiming  Trafal¬ 
gar  may  be  ready  to  increase 
the  value  of  the  bid  to  between 
£11.50  and  £12  a  share.  North¬ 
ern  finished  3p  lighter  at  £11.17 
and  Trafalgar  was  unchanged 
at66p. 

There  was  further  solid 
institutional  support  for  the 
two  English  power  generators 
ahead  of  next  month's  pro¬ 
posed  sell-off  by  the  Govern¬ 
ment  of  its  remaining  stake  in 
the  companies.  PowerGen 
climbed  12p  to  515p,  while 
National  Power  improved  5p 
to486p. 

Vendome.  the  luxury  goods 
group  boasting  famous  brand 
names  including  Cartier 
watches,  Dunhill  lighters  and 
Mont  Blanc  pens,  fell  20p  to 
426p  in  the  wake  of  a  profits 
downgrading  by  at  least  one 
stockbroker.  Hoare  Govert 
has  cut  its  pre-tax  profit  esti¬ 
mate  for  the  current  year  to 
March  by  £5  million  to  £250 
million  and  for  next  year  from 
£295  million  to  £275  million. 

Vodafone  added  2p  to  184*2 , 
with  Warburg  Securities,  the 
stockbroker,  said  to  have  up¬ 
graded  its  recommendation 
from  a  hold  to  a  buy. 

A  review  of  the  packaging 
industry  by  BZW  has  led  to 
buy  recommendations  for 


LONDON 

COMMODITY  EXCHANGE 
COCOA 

Mir - 1048-1047  Mny _ 1(379-1077  1 

May  _ .  1040-1039  Jul _ 1086-1073 

Jul _ IQ50-IM8  Sep _ 1077-10*3 

Sep  1057-1057  DCC _ -  IIICMIOB 

Dec _ l*il-1057 

Mar  -  ..._  I0W-IQ66  Volume:  5r» 

ROBUSTA  COFFEES) 

Mil  . — -  30SMW5  Nov -  2945-3-135 

May  _  3020-3015  Jan _ 29302910 

Jul - 2967-2965  MBT _ 292D-MOO 

scp _ 2716-wo  Volume:  two 

WHITE  SUGAR  (FOB! 

Ream  Dec _ 3443423 

Spot  407.5  Mar _ J4I3-J83 

May  _  -eOlJMas  May..—  Ml  4-36.7 

Aug -  382.--42J  AUg - 3»  J-33A 

oa _ 3SOM9J  volume  1373 


MEAT  &  LIVESTOCK 
COMMISSION 

A^en go  tuuock  prices  <u  representative 
markets  on  February  X 
(p/kg  Iw)  Pig  Step  Cottle 

GB  _ (MJJb  121.62  121.70 

1*1-) _ -OCC  *2.18  *041 

Eng  Wales: - U4.12  121.74  121.49 

I*/-) - *002  *2.14  *035 

t%> - -120  *70  -6X, 

Scotland: _  82X17  121.17  123.68 

(*M - -149  *132  *0.75 

fW - -300  *10  *8.0 


Calls  Puts 
Series  Apr  fid  Od  Apr  Jot  Oo 

.  *0  44  51  ST'i  2:  12  13 

503  ID,  25  33',  15  28  29 

..  260  IP.  23'j  28  Pi  12  14 

2S0  V:  Ui  18  ID*  23  25 

...  60  S';  II  115  ff:  1  2 

70  T,  5  6  T:  5  6 

..  460  22  3I>:  37',  7  18  2ff, 

500  4',  I y,  194  31  4l‘i  43', 

s  360  W,  35  42  S’,  14  18 

370  Iffi  19  27  Wi  B'r  33 

.  990  27  36  41',  4  IS 

420  Iff]  IS1,  254  lb  20  S 
.  140  I8*i  214  244  I  3  44 

160  5  7  13  5  II  124 

.  360  31  384  «4  4  II  144 

370  12  21  27  15  24  28 

.  493  26  -  -  12  -  - 

543  5  —  —  444  —  — 

.700  36  48  561,  15  27,  3D, 
750  9  24'.  33  46  504  571. 

.3W  284  33  41  64  164  21 

420  12':  IS  254  20  32  37 

.  550  J8  454  *  34  144  174 

630  9*.-  164  2ff:  2J-;  42  4S 

.  360  23  29  34  4  II  13 

6*.-  13  194  154  264  284 

.  460  254  36  4l4  84  164  244 

500  64  IS  234  35  »4  464 

'  30  314  38  44  24  JD4  1T> 

420  114  174  27  17]  234  2b 

.  700  294  40  534  ID,  17  23 

750  5  154  28  42  454  50 

.  460  3D,  404  *  7  134  19 

SO  94  20  29  2?)  33  384 

.  220  12  17  204  4  q  10 

240  34  74  II  16  X  2! 

tO  i  II  124  I  2  3 

30  3  S4  74  54  64  7. 


AIM  Don.  460 
T4071  500 

Argyll —  260 
1*26841  2S0 

ASDA _ 60 

1-68)  70 

B00C5 _ 460 

500 

Br  Airways  360 
CS7741  390 

BP - 390 

mu  420 
Br  Steel  _  140 
(■ISDft  160 
CSW —  360 
raw*  » 

CU -  493 

f*517)  543 

ra - n» 

rwt  7ao 
Klnullshr.  390 
MOM  420 
land  Sec..  530 
«791  <03 

MAS _ 360 

1-37441  390 

NalWesL-460 
1-48341  SO 
SalnsbDjy  W 
(MI4'4  420 

shell - 700 

(*725'd  7  HI 

Sltlkl  Bdl.  480 
C«Td  SO 
SKOTJlSe-  220 
(*2251  240 

TrUilgar...  60 
(*6M  70 

vntuver.  USO 
(-11724  13» 

Zener*—..  890 
P8S71  WO 


Gmd  Met.  360  21  264  33  84  144  ID, 

W4  390  Ti  IJ,  19  2F,  3D,  324 

Ladbrote..  160  16  21  23*1  34  D,  8*. 

t*HW  IHO  S',  ID:  131,  IS1,  ID.  184 

Utd  Blsc_  330  254  3D.  341,  12  |6  X 

P34DJ  360  ID:  ID,  204  294  »,  364 

FBbruuy2l.  l99STpC27B02CalL'  10303 
Ptt  17499  FT-SE  CoH  2945  Pot  7247 
UDderlykig  -warily  price. 


Cartier’s  parent  Vendome  fell  20p  on  lower  forecasts 


Bowater,  Sp  better  at  406p, 
and  Low  &  Bo  oar,  16p  higher 
at  424p. 

Full-year  figures  from  Nat¬ 
ional  Westminster  Bank 
were  bang  in  line  with  City 
forecasts,  showing  pre-tax 
profits  up  from  £989  million  to 
£1.59  billion.  Provision  for  bad 
debt  was  halved  to  £616  mil¬ 
lion  and  a  strong  performance 
was'  seen  from  the  domestic 


ping  out  exceptional  items 
profits  were  only  4  per  cent 
ahead  on  last  year’s  final 
figure,  which  was  depressed 
by  a  restructuring  charge  of 
almost  £500  million. 

The  group  said  growth  had 
been  partly  restrained  by  the 
launch  of  its  new  Power  range 
of  detergents,  which  had  to  be 
withdrawn  initially  following 
claims  it  destroyed  certain 


British  Steel  is  the  only  steel  company  with  net  cash.  It  was  also 
one  of  the  heaviest  traded  stocks  yesterday  adding  4*  p  to  157*4  p 
as  8  million  shares  changed  hands.  This  followed  an  upbeat 
presentation  to  the  Society  of  Investment  Analysts.  Recent  price 
rises  have  held.  Demand  is  strong  and  continuing  to  grow. 


banking  arm.  A  drop  in  the 
trading  surplus  of  II  per  cent 
to  £213  bfliion  and  a  warning 
from  Lord  Alexander,  the 
chairman,  that  lending 
growth  would  be  modest  this 
year,  left  the  shares  9p  lower 
at484p. 

A  modest  increase  in  final 
pre-tax  profits  left  Unilever  4p 
cheaper  at  £11.69.  Pre-tax  prof¬ 
its  were  24  per  cent  ahead  at 
£238  billion,  but  after  strip¬ 


fabrics. 

Full -year  figures  from 
Guardian  Royal  Exchange, 
which  kicked  off  the  dividend 
season  for  the  insurance  com¬ 
posites.  took  some  digesting. 

Operating  profits  of  almost 
£300  million  were  at  the  top 
end  of  the  range  and  managed 
to  offset  news  of  investment 
losses.  The  11  per  cent  fall  in 
the  net  asset  value  was  also 
less  than  feared  enabling  the 

IfT  all-share  Dr160 

.-  price  Index  P[JS, 

*  ja  (rebased)  !  I160 


LVk  _  .  .-?<*  L  i4o 


=  SHAREsSSipON 

NEWS  OF  LOSSES 
:  AND  NO  DIVIDEND 

Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec  Jan  Feb 


cbWB/ioon^;  - 

I  CIS- LOR  (Loudon  6.00pm) 
CRUDE  OILS  (S/ barrel  FOB) 

Brenl  Physical _  1740  -020 

Brenl  15  day  (Apr) -  17X0  (n/ci 

Bran  15  Jay  (May) -  16.90  *0X15 

W  Texas  Imermediare  lAprt  18.65  ln/a) 
WTexas  Imermediaie  (Mjy)  18.45  in/a) 

PRODUCTS  ff/MT) 

Spot  C1F  NW  Europe  (prompt  delivery) 

Premium  Cas  .15  B:  172  (n/cl  Cfc 174  (n/cj 

Gasoil  EEC -  147  (n/cl  14B 1-11 

Non  EEC  IH  Mar  (48  (n«l  149  infot 

Non  EEC  1H Apr  I49in/c)  1511*11 

33  Fuel  Oil -  1071*11  109  <*■)) 

Naphrha . .  I7i(*2)  172  r*2) 

IPE  FUTURES  (CN1  Lid) 

GASOIL 


GNI  LONDON  GRAIN  FUTURES 
WHEAT  I  BARLEY 
(dasrC/O  (daseC/t) 


Mar 

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Mar 

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May 

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May 

.  104.75 

Jul  - 

I1IJ0 

Sep 

.  .  97X0 

Sep 

_ 98.70 

Nor 

...  99J5 

NOW  . 

_ 99.65 

Jan  . 

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Volume:  512 

Volume:  318 

POTATO  (E/Q 

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Open  Owe 
—  2840  2819 

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volume  81 


RUBBER  (No  I  RSS  Of  pll) 
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146  50-46.75 

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High 

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Close 

May 

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Vol:  HOT 

FePOS 

2028 

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2020 

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2060 

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2031 

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Jul 

16.74- lb.77 

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1785 

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Vol.  196  lots 

Open  Interexl.  3910 

Jun  _  I6XM  SLR 

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LONDON  METAL  EXCHANGE  RndcdYWoUT 
CaUu  2890X1-299 1 XI  3mdr  2883J3-2884X)  Vofc  1 085625 
S89XX»m£)0  606l0M07J)0  182375 

lomo-loem  I  Otrt.!r 1005.0  4&7?5 

ssiaosssao  55900-5595.0  22045 

1917X1-1918.0  WHJ-IW5  1355803 

84J0XM440J)  8580XFS5>*0  59280 


UFFE  OPHONS 


_ Saits 

BAA _ 420 

(•442:1  450 

names  W  460 
r-tT^  900 

_ Series. 

BAT  Hid..  390 
(MI54)  420 

am —  300 
rm  jjo 

Br  Aero _ 448 

P4W4J  487 

BrTekm.  360 
rJ86)  390 

Cadbury..  409 
(*425)  447 

Guinness.  390 
C4IM  420 

GEC _ 280 

C2M  XO 

Hinson—  220 

ro?:)  210 

LA5MO _ 140 

(-153  1W 

I  liras _ 180 

riser,)  200 

PiUdngm..  140 
rtS9)  160 

ProdentUI  300 
r3D5)  330 

BsUaed ...  420 
r439l  460 

B-Myoe—  140 
(*»>)  160 

Taw - 240 

(*249  260 

Vodafone.  ISO 
PI 8441  330 

williams.  300 
r32D,J  330 


CABs  Puts 
Ayr  Ad  Oa  Apr  M  Oa 

314  »'i  45  4  10  II 

12';  —  _  14  —  — 

2S  38*.-  43  5  18  22 

S',  19  224  25*,  41  44 

Hay  Amt  No* May  Aar  Nor 
XT:  37  41  11  20  22 

144  21  2Di  264  36  ST’i 
14',  224  254  104  134  18 

4  10  13  304  32  36 

35  -  -  15  -  — 

16  —  —  35  -  — 

35  «*,  44  34  84  II 

154  22  26  134  214  24 

294  40  -  8  !]'■  - 

10  2D.  -  26  30  - 

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124  21  26  204  244  264 

l*'i  Mr  5  11  13 

5  13  17  ts  2l'i  m 

21  24  254  2  54  7 

8  12  144  94-  14  16 

16  204  24  3  5  64 

54  94  134  124  144  16 
14  20  234  Dr  94  134 

5  II  14'.  184  21  244 

22  24  2D:  I  24  34 

8  11  144  D,  94  II 

114  174  22  134  17  21 

34  74  II  3D:  384  4D, 

28  344  384  144  204  254 

74  154  21  414  45  -W: 

144  18  20,  34  6  84 

44  84  114  15  17  19 
IJ'i  17  20  84  II  1?, 

44  8  114  21  23  2S 

134  IS  224  7  10  12 

5  9  134  184  2)  23 

264  Jffr  JT,  6  94  14 

8  15  184  214  25  29 


Abby  Nat.. 

(M3M 

Anmadu 

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Barclays  _ 

P50I4J 

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(T0S4) 

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P2J71 

Wellcome 

P10MI 


160  16'.- 
180  7i 
140  II 
160  I 
-  90  94 

100  7> 

1000  37 

1093  9 


1000  3?. 
1050  15 


Cdt 

Jon  Sep  Mar , 

264  334  7 

10  16  37 

12  -  54 

4-26 

274  384  194 

11  194  61 
23  284  24 

13  19  114 

ID,  214  4 
4  <*4  244 

194  224  24 
94  124  134 

204  244  I 

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44  7  34 

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21  244  14 
ID.  144  114 
284  33  I 
17  22'.  74 
414  55  254 

19  354  59 


FT-SE  INDEX  (*30234) 


2900 

2950 

3000 

3050 

3100 

3150 

l» 

95 

59', 

J3 

16 

7 

ISIS 

II4'r 

84 

SB 

IT1: 

a, 

171 

136 

107 

« 

S81: 

41': 

1J»S 

149*: 

liS-r 

94': 

71': 

54': 

270-r 

— 

aw'i 

- 

160 

- 

10 

IN'r 

X 

59 

91 

IX 

28', 

•>1-1 

615 

ftp, 

114 

150 

40 

SS 

75 

99 

IZTr 

161 

49: 

671. 

BP, 

Ul'i 

1375 

171 

95 

— 

131 

— 

181 

— 

_ Scrim  Apr  jul  Qg  Apr  Jul  Oa 

Gbum - «D  494  68  774  74  IDi  28 

rW6)  6W  20  384  494  28  374  52 

HSBC -  650  J2  46  614  274  40  SO 

r66S  TOO  11  26  414  614  71  80 

Saner —  420  2S4  374  47  94  is  20 

P4J7)  460  74  19  284  33  40  414 

_ SerioMay  Jal  OdMay  JnJ  Oa 

Bcyal  1ns  ■  MO  m  a  31  9  13  ii” 

PZ79i)  280  10  16  21  19  23  28 

_ Series  Mar  inn  Sep  Mar  Jta  Sep 

Fbons _ 110  II  164  20  2  7  84 

1*1184)  120  5  114  154  6  114.  IJ4 

_ Seri«M«y  Aag  NoMayAupNgv 

Eastern  Gp  700  534  67  77  18  34  4ffi 

C726'4  750  27  4)  52  42  60  66 

Series  Mar  Jm  ScpMar  Jn  Sep 
mu  Pwr„.  460  29  42  454  1  Iff:  154 

rm  500  44  184  21  ID:  304  354 

*OiPWr-30O  344  34  39  ffi  64  114 
rJ224)  330  S  lb  22  II  18  2S4 


shares  to  close  3p  dearer  at 
176p. 

Sedgwick,  the  Lloyds  insur¬ 
ance  broker,  was  in  confident 
mood  as  it  unveiled  a  34  per 
cent  leap  in  pre-tax  profits  last 
year  to  £94.4  million,  with  the 
promise  of  even  better  to 
come.  Sax  Riley,  chief  execu¬ 
tive,  said  expansion  will  be 
achieved  through  a  mixture  of 
organic  growth,  cross-selling, 
acquisitions  and  new  markets. 

Yorkshire  Chemicals 
dropped  I  Op  to  345p  after  final 
figures  came  in  at  the  bottom 
end  of  City  forecasts,  with  pre¬ 
tax  profits  £1.4  million  ahead 
at  £14.4  million.  Brokers  last 
night  began  downgrading 
their  estimates  for  the  current 
year,  although  Smith  New 
Court,  the  stockbroker,  said  it 
would  be  sticking  to  its  origi¬ 
nal  figure  of  £15.7  million. 

CentreGold.  the  computer 
and  video  games  distributor, 
tumbled  37p  to  60p.  wiping 
almost  £16  million  from  the 
company’s  stock  market  value 
of  £42  million  after  warning  of 
losses  and  no  dividend.  The 
group  says  it  will  report  a 
deficit  of  E3.6  million  in  the  six 
months  to  January,  following 
a  sharp  drop  in  demand  for 
cartridge  video  games  in 
Europe  and  the  US.  where 
sales  have  fallen  from  £53 
million  to  £41 
million.  □  GILT-EDGED: 
The  market  continued  to  lose 
ground  ahead  of  today's  £2 
billion  auction,  with  market- 
makers  selling  stock  to  make 
room  for  the  new  issue.  Senti¬ 
ment  was  again  depressed  by 
the  pound's  nervousness. 

The  March  series  of  the 
Long  Gilt  traded  lower  during 
thin  trading  in  the  futures  pit. 
ending  £s  / 1&  off  at  £101*  /  32  as 
40.000  contracts  were 
completed. 

Among  conventional  issues 
the  benchmark  Treasury  S  per 
cent  2013  drifted  almost  ih  to 
£9417/ is,  while  at  the  shorter 
end  Treasury  S  per  cent  2000 
was  seven  ticks  off  at  £97J  /  a. 

In  a  separate  move,  the 
Treasury  announced  plans  to 
set  up  an  open  gilt  repo 
market  by  January  1996.  At 
present  wily  market-makers 
are  allowed  to  go  short  in  the 
bond  market.  The  repo  plan 
will  open  up  stock  borrowing 
facilities  to  a  wider  range  of 
investors  which  should  im¬ 
prove  liquidity. 

□  NEW  YORK:  Shares  on 
Wall  Street  ran  out  of  steam 
early  and  by  midday  were 
mixed.  The  Dow  Jones  indus¬ 
trial  average  stood  at  3,960,  up 
7.06  points. 


major  indices 


New  York  (midday): 

Dowjonvs  . 3960/0  l,?.06l 

SfiPCompi»l!9  -  4SL57  1*060) 

Tokyo: 

Nlkkd  Average . -  1KW6J5  l*  159-771 

Hong  Kong: 

Hang  Seng  . - .  6082.2*>l*i75.?5) 

Amsterdam: 

EOE  index  - - - - 410.12 

Sydney: 

A0  .  ....  _  1857.7  MS) 

Frankfurt 

DAX  _ _ _ ....  3397  04  (-1.901 

Singapore: 

Siraiis _ _ _ 2105.14  (-11 A41 

Brussels: 

General ... _ _ _  7037.18  1-18.461 

Paris: 

CAC^ _ _ _  18J5.n2 1*3.38) 

Zurich: 

SKA  Gen -  624  bO  1+1.801 

London: 

FT  30  _ _ 2298-2  1*06) 

FT  100 _ 3023.4  (-4.8) 

FT-SE  Mid  250 - 34H.4  l-l-») 

FT-SE  Euroirad:  100  .  —  1300.97  H.95] 

FT  A  All-Share -  1496.00 1*1 AS 

FT  Non  Financials  - .  1619.81 1*1.511 

FT  Gold  Mines - - 201.7  (*i.4) 

FT  FUed  (merest - 109.69 1-O.I3) 

FT  Ct*1  Sees - - - W.67  (-022J 

Bargains  _ — -  20351 

seaq  volume - 450.2m 

USM  iDaramm)  - -  146-55  (-0.061 

li$] . . 1.5S05  I-OXB351 

German  Mark -  23383  i-O.COSn 

Exchange  Index - 97.0  (-0.1) 

Bant  of  England  official  dose  I4pm> 

£:ECU - - 1-2571 

E:SDR  - - - 

RPI  . . 146.0  Jan  133%)  Jan  1987=100 

RECENT  ISSUES  I 


Bath  Press  (10i 

13  ... 

Lazard  Birla 

50'.  ... 

Lazard  Birla  Wt s 

29'j  ... 

MCITS  Cap  (35) 

34  ... 

MC1TS  Inc  (35) 

56  ... 

Mathesan  Lyds  IT  1 1001 

79  -1 

Pern  ex  oil 

80  ... 

Phorabition  (I50| 

156  -2 

Wessex  Trust 

tv.  ... 

woodchesier  Ms 

1 25  ... 

RIGHTS  ISSUES 

BTP  n/p  (225)  13'.-  + 

Barb  Press  n/p(  10)  3  .. 

Cadbury  Schws  n/p  85  * 
European  Colour  n/p  1571  19  + 
Nat  Home  Loans  n/p  (1 10)  '• 
Shorco  n/p  (90)  5  .. 

Major  changes 


RISES: 

Lloyds . 

.  564p(-8pi 

Low  &  Bonar  . 

..  424p(-16p) 

Transallantic  . 

.  .  .  332p  (-6p< 

British  Borneo  . 

..  246p(-13p-' 

Bowater  . 

..  406pi-7”p) 

FALLS: 

Nai  West . 

. . .  4X(3p  (-1  Op) 

Tilbury  Douglas . 

.  ..  473d  1-1  Opt 

Laforie . 

.  .  626p(-6pl 

Burmah  Caslrol  .. 

.  .  854p  i-5p! 

Provident . 

.  544pi-6p; 

Bnlish  Biotech 

....  477JJ--11DJ 

Recfcift  Colman  . 

.  630p  (-9p) 

Royal  . 

.  2750  (-6p) 

Airtours . 

..  420p/-16p) 

Vendome . 

.  426p  f-EOpi 

First  Choice  . 

...  .  107p  f-6pl 

First  Leisure  .... 

....  274pi-6pi 

RankOrg  . 

..  .  o66p  f-5p) 

Yorts/we  Chems . 

..  .  .  34fip  ;-9pi 

Eurodollar . 

.  ..  193p  !-6p) 

Kwik-Fil . 

.  143p  l-5p| 

BAT  . 

. 416p  |-6pl 

Rothmans . 

.  458p  (-5p) 

Glynwed  . 

299p(-7p) 

Bespak . 

.  325p  (-5pl 

UniChem  . 

. 245p  (-5p) 

Closing  Prices  Page  31 


:LOlWON  FINANCIAL  FUTURES 


Period 

Open 

High 

Low 

Sen 

Vol 

FT-SE  100 

Mar  95  _ 

3015.0 

3034.0 

3005.0 

3027.0 

10623 

Previous  open  micros  «nc« 

Jun  Q5  _ 

3019.0 

30363 

3014.0 

3035.0 

177 

FT-SE  250 

Mar  95 

34200 

343M) 

3420X1 

34200 

HQ 

previous  open  Imeresi-  4113 

Jun  95  - 

3441X1 

J+4I  0 

3441.0 

3441X1 

110 

Three  Month  Sterling 

Mar  95. _ 

93.03 

93X16 

93XC 

9306 

7374 

previous  open  Iriieresi:  456557 

jun  95 

92J7 

9131 

9245 

9240 

14574 

Sep  95  _ 

91.71! 

9182 

91.76 

91.42 

7288 

Three  Mth  Eurodollaj- 

Mar  95  _. 

93.67 

0 

previous  open  Iniem:  2487 

Jun  95  . 

•*3.17 

93.17 

93.17 

93.19 

10 

Three  Mth  Euro  DM 

Mar  95  ... 

94  86 

94.9o 

94  M 

94^4 

IS19I 

Previous  open  Imeresi.  782.*3f 

Jun  95  _ 

94  JO 

9451 

94.44 

94.44 

45082 

Long  Gill 

Mar  QS ... 

101-08 

101-09 

10030 

101-01 

40097 

Previous  open  Imerest  wi 

Jun  95  _ 

101-14 

101-14 

101-05 

10I4X, 

5090 

Japanese  Govmt  Bond 

Mar  95 .. 

109.34 

109.40 

ICBJ3 

I09J7 

884 

Jun  95  -. 

108X0 

108.62 

108.56 

I'SLbO 

2854 

German  Gov  Bd  Bund 

Mar  os  . 

•4)64 

90  bo 

90L3S 

90.45 

nicer 

Previous  open  interest:  22491. 

Jun  95  _ 

90.12 

90.  J  2 

89iio 

B9.94 

14875 

Three  month  ECU 

Mot  95  . . 

93.79 

9X79 

9X73 

93.76 

1433 

Previous  open  Imeresi:  25183 

Jun  95  _ 

•»J6 

9326 

9342 

9344 

1105 

Euro  Swiss  Franc 

Mar  os  ... 

95.99 

96D5 

95  99 

%01 

3894 

Previous  open  imeresi-  403:18 

Jun  95 

95.6Q 

95.70 

95  A3 

95355 

2567 

Italian  Govmt  Bond 

Mar  05  . 

99.80 

99^5 

98.85 

98.90 

49474 

Previous  open  Iniensc  53089 

Jim  95  ... 

■W.40 

98  40 

97.80 

97  84 

HIM 

MONEYRATE§(%)  ,  '  : 

Base  Rales:  Clearing  Bonks  b'.  Finance  Hse  7 

Discount  Martin  Loans:  o/nigtai  high:  6%  Low  44  Week  (Iked:  64 

Treasmy  Bffls  (DfefrBuy:  2  mih  6'- :  3  mih  D.- .  Sell:  2  mth  64 ;  3  mill:  64 . 

I  mth  2  andi  3  mth  6  mth  12  null 
Prime  Bank  BQk  (Dish  oMw-6"«  ff'u-fffo  brtt4>n>.-  6'r6'. 

Sterling  Money  Rates  6"«-6,;u  V'<r(r’u  74.-74=  Tw-v. 

Interbank:  ff'c-6'c  b'W-  I'a-Tr  T-V, 

Overnight:  open  6V  dose  44 . 

Local  Authority  Depse  61.-  n/a  6"i.  7'»  7*. 

Slerfing  CDs  b'r6’»  (?4=-64  7,«-7'u  7*^7*. 

Dollar  CDs  5.98  n/a  6.15  6.40  6.90 

BaBding  SoofOy  CDs  b*^,  bVtf,.  6>r6",.  74=-7>«  7"«-7,l» 

ECGD:  Fixed  Rate  Sterling  Expon  Finance.  Make-up  day:  Jan  31. 1995  Agreed  rates 
Feb  26. 1995  to  Mar  25.  1995  Scheme  III:  7.87%.  Reference  rate  Dec  31. 1994  to  Jan  31, 
1 995  Scheme  IV  &  V:  6.624‘fc. 


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^  GOLb/PRECiousMmi3!iS^^^ 

Ballion:  Open  S379xn-379.«  Oosc  £378^0-378.90  High:  $379.20-379.70 
Low:  S377 JO-378. 30  AM:  S379XM  PM:  *378.65 
Knigemnd:  J3SI  4X>-383.00  |L24  f  .00-24 3X10) 

Ptabnnm:  $417X0  (£264. 151  S'lhrr  S4.77  (£3X)I5)  PaBadunn:  $157X10  (C99.451 

4  STERLlMGSPOT ANDTORWArB(RATES^ 


Mkt  Rates  for  F 

Amsterdam _ 

Brussels _ 

Copenhagen.—. 

Dublin _ 

Franklun  _ _ 

Lisbon _ 

Madrid _ 

Milan _ 

Montreal _ 

New  York _ _ 

Oslo _ — _ 

Paris . 

Stockholm _ 

Tokyo  _ 

Vienna _ 

Zurich _ _ 

Source  Erfri 


Range 

2.6090-2.6272 
47.92-4839 
9.1 9509 J4M 
1X017-1  X»4« 


Close  1  month  3  month 


2A239-2JS272 

48.18-48329 

9JSI09XM50 

I.00I7-1XXH3 


.  ... 

Upright  Guardian 

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WITH  the  early  wakenings  of  spnng  comes 
news  of  an  overdue  spring  clean  at  Guardian. 
At  last  there  are  signs  that  the  ramposne 
insurers  are  shaking  off  layers  of  dust  and 
caking  action.  Realism  has  hu  honw  ^ 
high  margins  of  the  past  are  relegated  to  me 

history  books.  , ,  ,  . _ -  _ 

Guardian  is  first  off  the  blocks,  forming 
strategy  to  combat  the  more  hosnle  emTron- 
mentTh  uriiich  it  operates.  A  £28  mUtan 
reorganisation  programme  is  under  way. 
involving  cost  cutting,  job  losses,  strippm^  ou 
management  layers  and  concentrating  ontne 
customer.  The  latter  is  vital  as  customer 
service  is  being  used  ira-Teasingly  by  com" 
panics  to  differentiate  their  products. 

TUa  tVWTlK  flC  thf  UK  lTiSUl" 


premiums  ns  ng  *  ^on  js  severe,  since  ' 
This  is  vital  asroinpeu*  significant;: 

the  djr"  'v™f0nal  Mes  busine^  Gua^ 
inroads  into  proportion  -  of 

personai  busmess  ^  u 

general  than  its  rivals, 

exposed  to  tius  g^erai  insurance. 

Thereisal^d  isT  : ySi  and  with,  ai 
earnings  peaked  last  )  the  ftitiw 

gloomier  oudo^^  vvith  its  ability  to 

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service  IS  OCUlg  USCU  uaww  -  nupfWlS  ODerauOns-  ms.  ..  r  «■ 

panies  to  differentiate  their  products.  a  generous  7  per  cent  to  J 

The  restructuring  comes  as  the  UK.  mstfr"  8  winch  takes  account  of  muditf  the  -|- 

ance  cycle  is  turntog.  Last  time  Guardian  ahead-  ;  V 

expanded  into  the  downturn.  This  time  the  preoiciea  na.v _ _ _ 


Unilever 

THE  launch  of  Persil  Power 
has  been  expensive  for 
Unilever.  Aside  from  the  £57 
million  of  write-offs  made 
after  the  debacle,  the  brand’s 
problems  reduced  operating 
profits  from  detergents  by  £16 
million.  That  ignores  some 
£200  million  of  development 
and  launch  costs.  It  all  adds 
up  to  a  poor  return  on 
investment  for  shareholders. 

Investors  may  also  be  dis¬ 
appointed  by  the  lack  of  vis¬ 
ible  progress  after  last  year's 
restructuring,  which  cost 
£490  million  in  exceptional 
charges  and  was  supposed  to 
improve  profitability.  Obvi¬ 
ously  the  effect  of  such  ac¬ 
tions  takes  time,  but  there 
was  little  evidence  of  signifi¬ 
cant  improvements,  except  in 
North  .America.  Group  oper¬ 
ating  margins  actually  fell  to 
7.7  per  cent  from  S 3  per  cent 

Whatever  the  temporary 


CentreGold 

ANY  investor  who  is  contem¬ 
plating  piling  into  a  new 
issue  should  take  a  wry  look 
at  CentreGold,  the  electronic 
game  distributor. 

~  The  shares  were  placed  at 
I25p  in  October  1993  and 
traded  between  150p  and 
J65p  until  the  end  of  that 
year.  Yesterday  they  closed 
37p  down  at  60p,  a  fresh  low, 
after  a  warning  of  £3.6  mil¬ 
lion  losses  in  the  half  year  to 
end  January. 

As  with  any  small  com¬ 
pany  in  a  single  relatively 
specialised  market,  Centre- 
Gold  has  suffered  horribly 
from  ructions  in  its  backyard. 
Video  game  manufacturers 
have  announced  new  com¬ 
pact  disc  formats  which  will 
nor  be  released  until  the 
Autumn  leaving  CentreGold 
with  £2.9  million  of  provi¬ 
sions  on  "excess"  stocks. 

No  half-year  dividend  is  to 
be  paid  and  despite  directors’ 
"confidence  that  a  satisfac¬ 
tory  level  of  profitability  will 
be 'restored  for  the  second 


DOLLAR  RATES 


Australia - 

Austria - 

Belgium  (Cotnl - 

Canada _ 

Denmark - - 

France - 

Germany - 

Hang  Kang - 

Ireland - - — 

Italy _ 

Japan  - 

Malaysia _ _ 

Neiheriands - 

Norway _ 

Portugal - 

Singapore - 

Spain - 

Sweden - - - 

Switzerland  . . 


- 1 3-L6fr  1 .5495 

_ _ 10.41-10.42 

-  30.45-5048 

- 1 3995-1. 4000 

_ 5.8425-5.84*0 

-  5. 1 520-5. 1 540 

_  1.4785-1.4790 

- 7.7300-7.7310 

- 1.5736-1  -STS  1 

- 1617.75-1617.87 

- 97.29-97 

- 2J 53 5-15 545 

_  ).bS78-lMSf3 

_ 6.5088-6.5108 

- 153J6-153.46 

-  1.453J-1.4530 

_ (29JU-1 29.43 

- 73141-7.324 1 

-  1.2500-1.2505 


OTHER  STERLING 


Argentina  peso* _ 

Australia  dollar _ 

Bahrain  dinar  — _ _ 

Brazil  real* - - 

Cyprus  pound - 

Finland  markka _ 

Greece  drachma  _ 

Hong  Kong  dollar _ 

India  rupee _ _ _ 

Kuwait  dinar  KD _ 

Malaysia  nnggli _ 

Mexico  peso  _  _ _ 

New  Zealand  dollar  — 

Pakistan  rupee _ 

Saudi  Areola  rlyai _ 

Singapore  dollar _ 

S  Alrica  rand  (fin) _ 1 

5  Alrica  rand  (com)  .... 

U  AEdlrham _ 

Barclays  Bank  GTS  • 


—  1.577 8-1.5904 
2.1274-2.1298 

-  0.5905-0.6025 

—  1J269-IJ3I0 

_ 0.72-0.73 

-  7.180-7296 

— ..  364.50-37 1  JO 
_.  12.1995-122088 

- 49.J6-50.J2 

...  0.46650.4765 

—  4.0296-4.0338 

-~r  "£4X85-14920 
-  48.35  Buy 

—  5-8725-5.9985 

-  22913-22936 

_....  6.0162-6. 0512 

-  5.0078-5.6 1 46 

-  5.750-5.874 

•Uoyds  Bank 


31  194 

ASDA  Gp  4,400 
Abbey  Natl  1200 

AlldDom  2.400 
Argyll  Gp  3JJ00 
AnoWIggn  2XMO 
Afi  Foods  9i 
BAA  7.400 
BAT  Olds  4200 
BOC  777 

BP  6300 

BTK  4300 
BT  5300 

Bk  of  Soot  3.900 

Barclays  1.400 
Bass  .  751 

Blue  Circle  604 
Boots  926 

Bowater  2.IC0 
Bril  Aero  615 

Brit  Aitwys  5.900 

Blit  Gas  6.900 

Bril  Steel  9.100 

Bumuft  Cnl  372 
Cable  wire  1200 
Cadbury  zbqo 
Ca  radon  ixxn 
Carlton  Cms  548 
Cm  union  644 
CO  (Moulds  429 
De  La  Rue  2200 
Eastern  Elec  6O1 
EmerprOU  508 
Tone  2x500 
GKN  587 

GRE  3JQ0 


Legal  &  Gn  447 
Uqyds  Bk  5.400 
M£PC  221 
Marks  Spr  4,700 
NaiWst  Bk  1 1 XXX) 
N3L  Power  4JOO 
Nlh  Wst  W  738 

P40  1J00 

Pearson  3,iOo 
PowerGen  3XXX) 
Prudential  i.soo 
RMC  113 

HTZ  2JU0 

Rank  Oig  J^OO 
Redd  tt  Col  1700 
Redland  1,100 
Reed  mil  986 
Remold]  ijoo 
Reiners  5JOO 
Rolls  Rpyce  2.100 
Ryl  ins  1.000 
RylBkSCOI  590 

Sainstniry  2loqo 
Sduodera  40 
Sox  ft  New  2.700 
scot  Power  4XXU 
se an  7.600 
Svm  Trent  315 
stiell  Trans  2J00 
Siebe  457 
SraKl  Bdl  4,700 
5mlUlNp(l  2.500 
Sthem  Elec  448 
SidChand  1.100 
Sun  Allnce  362 
TI  Gp  901 

TSB  928 


2J27I-2J388 

2J3Kr-2J388 

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l-’.pr 

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677 

tbsco 

24143-243.15 

24232-243.15 

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2JOQO 

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2D3JI-204.7B 

204-48-204.78 

24*3205 

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Mas 

12-1  Sds 

Granada 

2300 

Tomkins 

2J0S2-24lbl 

24125-24156 

OJOO.NOS 

a46039ds 

Grand  Met 

2,100 

Unilever 

13770-13838 

1.5820-13830 

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Guinness 

12400 

Old  Else 

104380-104960 

104810-104960 

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2300 

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Hanson  4JKX) 

ia  ijoo 

Incbcape  1*0 

Klngmber  S04 

Lad  broke  i.floo 

Land  Secs  6Q3 


Warburg  (so  438 
Wellcome  i.9Qo 
Whitbread  2.700 
Wilms  Hid  2^00 
woisdey  1300 
Zeneca  875 


problems,  the  long-term  at- 
factions  of  Unilever  remain 
intact  Although  Europe  was 

wobblv  last  year,  consumer 
spending  should  pick  up 
stronglv  in  the  current  year. 
Profits"  from  the  region 
should  start  to  benefit  from 
that  increased  demand  com¬ 
bined  with  a  lower  cost  base 
and  the  fact  that  Persil 
Power’s  problems  are  now 

1  ~  IN  THE  WASH 


safely  behind  it  North  ] 
America  and  the  rest  ot  tie  1 
world  are  likely  n>  show  ; 
continued  progress. 

The  group  will  also  pros¬ 
per  from  the  impact  of  £585; 
million  worth  of  acquisitions 
made  last  year,  which  will 
add  £1  billion  to  sales  alone:  ; 
On  a  prospective  p/e  of 
about  13  times,  the  shares  | 

look  good  value.  :j 


i-iwpiB/ 


UnflBwJ 


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index  s.  * 

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half  of  the  year"  the  payment 
of  a  final  dividend  will  be 
“reviewed  in  the  light  of 
second  half  and  full  year 
results". 

Not  only  small  investors 
get  caught  out  when  things 
go  wrong  with  new,  small 
companies.  Smith  New 
Court,  the  house  broker,  had 
been  expecting  E5.3  million 
for  the  current  year.  It  has 
now  U-turned  into  a  loss  of 
£15  million,  but  is  still  ex¬ 
pecting  between  £4  million 
and  £5  million  for  1995-96. 
Once  bitten. 

Yorkshire 

Chemicals 

THE  City  is  used  to  relentless 
growth  from  Yorkshire 
Chemicals  so  it  took  a  dislike 
to  yesterday's  figures,  which 
showed  that  profits  almost 
stagnated  in  the  second  half. 
Growth  slowed  to  3  per  cent 
in  the  half,  compared  with  a 
robust  19  per  cent  advance 
between  January  and  June. 

A  number  of  factors  con¬ 
tributed  to  the  slowdown. 


While  prices  in  petrochemi¬ 
cals  have  soared  in  the  last  18. 
months,  prices  on  the  types  of 
chemicals  in  which  York¬ 
shire  specialises  remain 
under  pressure.  Lower,  prices 
particularly  in  dyes  wipetf- 
£2.6  million  off  profits  during 
the  year.  The  pressure  should 
ease  after  the  merger  of  Bay¬ 
er  and  Hoechst  colour  dyes 
businesses,  but  relief  will  not  I 
come  quickly. 

While  this  is  beyond  York-  | 
shire's  control,  it  can  exercise  j 
more  self-help  in  the  Am  err-  j 
cas.  Profits  here  fell  by  £2.6  : 
million  during  the  year,  and 
the  process  chemical  busi¬ 
ness  in  the  US  need  to  lift 
volumes.  I 

The  strong  US  economy  \ 
should  assist  Yorkshire  in 
this  during  1995.  while  its 
new  capacity  will  come  on 
stream  in  Leeds  next  year. 
The  shares  are  now  trading 
on  a  prospective  p/e  multiple 
in  the  low  teens,  which  is  not 
expensive  for  a  high  class 
company. 

Edited  by  Neil  Bennett 


Feb2l  Feb  17 
ftriddav  dob? 

AMP  Inc  74s.  74', 

AMR  Coip  5®*,  58 

AT  AT  5D.  W. 

Abban  Labs  X 

Advanced  Micro  iv.  3D. 

ACOU  Life  5Z  51'. 

Abnunion  (HFj  it.  I71. 

Air  Pro!  £  Own  47v  *r. 

Albertson's  3ff>  JD: 

Alcan  Alumnm  25  24’> 

Alto  Solo  dart  m.  rt*. 

vista  signal  Sr.  yr. 
Alum  Co  oi  Am  at1.  XV. 
arms  cold  me  s  4a. 

Amerada  Hess  at.  48 
AltlCT  Brand]  37 ■.  3T: 
Airier  □  Power  >4  M 
Amer  Express  33'<  JT. 
Amer  Cenl  Corp  jf.  31 
Amer  Home  Pr  71'.  7IS 
Amer  I  ml  ICO1-  103'. 

Amer  Stores  kv  jy. 
Amerflecb  425  41 '• 

Amoco  58'.  58'i 

Aiibtuier-BiHch  55\  55 
Apple  Compute  4l*i  42S 
Archer  Daniels  19  IT. 
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Avon  Products  st1.  rr. 
Balrr  HofSies  i«  is*. 

Balrtn  Gas  *  El  it  ■.  m\ 

Banc  One  ar.  or. 

BankAmcrica  47',  47‘> 
Bank  of  NY  32'.  37. 

Bankere  Tr  NY  0? >62 
Barnett  Banks  44s  «'• 
Baosch  a  lottiIj  jy,  33*. 
Bauer  mil  31  11 

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Bodng  46S  46 

Bdtse  Cascade  30s  30 
Borden  Inc  12s  17, 

Bristol  Myra  Sq  61S  sis 
Browning  Ferris  31s  Jis 
Bnirnwkk.  it.  it. 

Bartinfton  Nthn  55*:  SSS 

CBS  61'.  60*. 

CNA  nttatuM  7fS  7(S 
CPC  Ulll  S3S  S3'. 

CSX  76S  76'. 

cunpbdl  Soap  44.  45 

C&D  Pttlflc  14  14 

CpU  ctates  ABC  B5S  84’. 
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caierpuiar  57.  57. 

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champion  nut  4i>.  4 r, 
Ouse  Manhai  34s'  34s 
Chemical  Bl>  4 tr.  J9>, 

CJlWfCul  CMP  47V  47 

Chryster  451:  45% 

Chubb  Corp  781.-  7^, 
Cigna  corp  79.  tss 

aucorp  47.  47, 

ctomx  SD.  59S 

coastal  omp  zr.  a1, 

Coca  cola  sjs  53s 

CXHBetePataiollve  67,  tr. 

calumnb  Gas  s.  36 
Compaq  Comp  3b  365 
Comp  ASS  Ml  55S  S5S 

COnisn  33  33 

Conran  w,  57 

Cons  Edison  ZP.  TP. 

Cons  Net  Gas  3D,  ms 

Cooper  inds  38'i  w, 

CMhirw  Inc  31',  3 y, 

Crown  cori.  47.  43 

Dana  Chip  23s  23S 

Dmon  Hudson  74s  tt, 
W*»e  Tbs  Ts*. 

Delia  Air  Hits  S6’t  56 

Dehne  corp  2 t.  27 

Detroii  Edison  2D.  2*. 

Digital  Equip  3$>,  35s 

Dillard  Du*  Si  27*.  27. 
Disney  (wait)  57,  if. 

Dominion  Res  38*.-  38 

Donate  (KB)  34  34 

Diner  corp  am  ay, 

Dow  Chemical  64s  ms 

Dow  fortes  35',  3Ti 

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Doioe  Power  w.  37. 

Dun  tr  Bidstreei  sos  51s 
Du  Pom  55s  55s 

Eastman  Kodak  50S  40s 
Eawn  Corp  4~s  47s 

Emerson  Elec  oss  ms 

EngdWUB  Corp  n>i  2D. 


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Enron  Grip  E',  31'. 

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EUtrl  Corp  Iff,  10s 

fjoon  nr.  63S 

FMC  Corp  58S  Sff. 

FPL  Group  35" I  36 

Pederal  Express  6ZS  h2S 

FM  Nar  Mige  77S  77 

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FIlW  Union  KPy  8  8 

Flea  Flnl  Grp  JUS  in 

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Gannett  52'.  SV. 

Gap  Inc  Del  3?-  IV. 

Gen  DTTMinta  44*.  441.- 

Gen  Electric  53S  53S 

Gen  MBIs  5W.  »*. 

Gen  Motor*  41  41 

Gen  Reinsurance  I2SS  IZ8S 

Gen  Signal  jy.  jy. 

Genuine  pans  39s  39'. 

Georgia  Pac  W,  75s 

Gillette  7(T.  78 

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Goodrich  am  44s  44s 

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Hewlen  Packard  113*.  H4s 

Hilton  Horeb  «■.  ees 

Home  Depot  4b  48S 

HomestaJ*  Mng  15s  is1.- 

Honeywell  35S  3P. 

Household  inti  40f.  4IS 

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Humana  sji,  23*. 

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minds  Tod  43-.  47. 

HHnora  23S  23S 

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inland  sieel  29  tv. 

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1ml  Flav  a  Fr  48>.  48S 

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COrp  16  ID, 

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Medtronic  sy,  w. 

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Pac  Enterpitsa 
Par  Gas  a  Elea 
Par  TeJests 
Pall  Corp 
Panhandle  East 
Parker  Hannifin 
Phb  Energy 
Penney  lia 
penrcoll 
PepsiCo 
Pfizer 

Phelps  Donee 
Philip  Morris 
Phillips  Pa 
PUney  boms 

Polaroid 

PriceCosttu 
Ptocet  «  GmW 
ProvKUan 
Pah  Serv  e  a  g 
Quaker  Oars 
Rain  on  Purina 
Kaython  Corp 
Raytbeon 
Reetwfc  mil 
Reynolds  Metals 
Roadway  Srets 
Rockwell  mil 
Rotun  ft  Haas 
Royal  Dmcn  1 
RubtxnnaJd 
Safeco  Corp 
St  Paul's  Cos 
Salomon  Inc 
Sana  Fe  Pic 
Sara  Lee  Corp 
Scecorp 

Sensing  Ptough 
Scblumbetaer 
scon  Paper 
Seagram 
Sean  Roebuck 
Shell  Trans 
Sherwtn  Wilms 
Skyline  Corp 
Snap^n-Toolt 
Soutnem  Co 
suiweuem  Ben 
Sprint  Carp 
Stanley  works 
Sun  6m  parry 
Sun  Mltrojis 
Sun  mm 
Supervalu 
Sysco  Corp 
TRW  inc 
TCC  Inds 
Tandem  Comp 

Tandy  Core 

Teledyne 
Temple  inland 
Termed 
Texaco 
Tens  Inst 
Teas  u tiling 
Teuton 
Time  Warner 
Tbnes-Mirrof  A 
Timken 
Torchmark 
Toys  R  Us 
Transimerten 
Travelers 
Tribune 
Tyco  Labs 
LST  inc 
UAL 

USA  Marathon 
Unltsm 

UnBever  NV  ] 
Union  Camp 
Union  ciiMde 
union  Padllc 
Unisys  Corp 
OSAIS  Gm/p 
usFfflC  Corp 
Us  Ule 
US  West 
Unmed  Tech 
Unocal  corp 
Upjohn 
VF  corp 
wmx  Teen 
WaFftian  Stores 
wamebUmbeit 
wells  Ru)jo  ( 

Wesflnghouse  El 
Weyerhaeuser 
Whirlpool 
Wnimun 
Winn  otzle 
Woo  [worth 
Wrtgley  (wtnl  Jr 
Xerox  1 

TeUow  Corp 


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T_1|e  times  WEDNESDAY  FEBRUARY  22 1995 


ANALYSIS  29 


THE 

TIMES 


‘It’s  a  new  game 
from  CentreGold' 

Credit  due 

THERE  are  four  girls  at 
Credit  Suisse  who  may  nev- 
e“  "  "'^rk  again.  Typ¬ 
ists  in  a  syndicate,  two  of 
them  temps,  were  among 
nine  winners  of  Saturday’s 
National  Lottery  which 
scooped  them  £987,022. 
“The  two  temps  are  not  ex¬ 
pected  back  at  work.  The 
other  two  haw  been  given 
th.-  week  off.”  said  a  bank 
r  -kesman  who  still  needs 
».  vork. 

Cih  collective 

IT  MIGHT  not  be  Master¬ 
mind.  but  it  is  an  amusing 
way  to  while  away  the 
lunch  hour.  The  new  fad  in 
town  is  hurling  collective 
nouns  around.  Such  as: 

A  squeal  of  Lloyd's  Names 
A  float  of  dawn  raiders 
A  gloat  of  privatised  indus¬ 
try  chairmen 

A  nod  and  wink  of  insider 
dealers 

A  poisoned  chalice  of 
chancellors 

A  sillimetre  of  Eurocrats 
(fruit  and  veg  department). 

Any  more  ideas?  Please 
write. 

All  you  need . . . 

IF  YOU  are  34  and  a  day.  a 
minority  shareholder  in  a 
business,  or  have  a  turn¬ 
over  Jp  shy  of  £1  million 
then  you’re  not  wanted  at 
the  Young  Entrepreneurs 
Organisation.  The  London 
branch  of  YEO  is  anxious  to 
increase  its  membership 
from  15  —  but  only  if  you 
are  under  34,  own  your  own 
business  and  can  boast  a 
turnover  of  more  than  £1 
million. 

Colin  Campbell 


Britain  against  the  world 
in  UN  employment  debate 


CITY 

DIAJRY 

- - — ♦ - 

Shaken . . . 
and  stirred 

I  REALLY  wouldn’t  wish 
one  on  my  worst  enemy,  but 
there  is  nothing  quite  like 
an  earthquake  to  wake,  and 
shake,  up  a  conference.  Last 
week,  more  than  500  dele¬ 
gates.  politicians  and  am¬ 
bassadors.  including  Oliver 
Miles.  Our  Man  in  Greece, 
attended  a  two-day  confer¬ 
ence  on  "Greece  and  the 
Balkans  Business  Co-oper¬ 
ation"  in  Thessaloniki, 
northern  Greece.  For  some, 
that's  riveting  and  the  stuff 
of  bedside  reading.  The  day 
started  early  enough. 
Lunch  was  a  grand  occa¬ 
sion.  But  some  heads  were 
nodding  as  George 
Romaios.  Greece’s  Alter¬ 
nate  Minister  of  NationaJ 
Economy,  got  into  his 
stride,  waxing  about  a 
transport  and  telecommun¬ 
ications  network  in  the  re¬ 
gion.  Come  3.17pm  and 
dust  and  bits  of  plaster 
started  to  fail  from  the 
ceiling.  An  earthquake 
measuring  between  4.7  and 
5  on  the  Richter  scale  was  in 
the  making!  My  shaken, 
rattled  and  rolled  colleague 
reports  that,  after  intitial 
confusion,  the  speaker  car¬ 
ried  on  as  if  nothing  had 
happened.  “But,  everybody 
did  suddenly  seem  to  be 
more  awake’ and  alert."  he 
mused. 

Magnum  force 

FOUND!  One  magnum  of 
Krug  1975.  After  yesterday's 
note  about  the  hunt  for  a 
Krug  magnum,  Keith  Wal¬ 
ler.  vice-president,  private: 
banking  division.  Chase 
Manhattan  Bank,  rose 
from  his  breakfast  table, 
looked  in  his  cupboard,  and 
—  hey  presto  —  drew  out  a 
1975  Krug  magnum.  “I’ve 
had  it  for  15  years  and 
planned  to  drink  it  in  the 
summer."  Sensitive  price 
negotiations  are  now  under 
way. 


Dole  queues  are 
shorter,  but  UK 
job  policies  are 
under  fire,  says 

Philip  Bassett 


UNEMPLOYMENT  IN  THE  YEAR  2000 


ANTHONY 

HARRIS 


Little  Johnnie  will 
again  be  the  only  one 
out  of  step  today.  The 
latest  searching  inter¬ 
national  study  on  jobs  and 
unemployment  across  the 
world  prescribes  solutions 
with  which  most  countries  will 
find  it  relatively  easy  to  live  — 
except  the  UK. 

British  ministers  wedded  to 
the  notion  of  ever-deregulated 
labour  markets  as  the  way  to 
promote  jobs  will  take  pride  at 
being  out  of  line.  They  are 
likely  to  shrug  off  the  interven¬ 
tionist  prescriptions  of  the 
report  by  the  United  Nations 
International  Labour  Office, 
and  to  point  to  the  sustained 
and  unexpectedly  early  fall  in 
unemployment  in  the  UK  over 
the  past  two  years,  and  signs 
now  of  increasing  job  growth, 
as  testament  to  the  success  of 
the  Government’s  labour  mar¬ 
ket  policies. 

Though  ministers  claim  that 
some  countries,  such  as  Spain, 
are  coming  more  into  line  with 
the  Government’s  insistence 
on  deregulation,  most  employ¬ 
ment  analysts  acknowledge 
that  the  gap  between  Britain’s 
approach  and  the  policies  of 
most  countries  is  wide. 

That  gap  is  likely  to  be  rein¬ 
forced  by  the  UN  world  social 
summit  in  Copenhagen,  for 
which  ministers  and  job  spe¬ 
cialists  from  around  the  globe 
will  be  arriving  in  Denmark 
from  the  end  of  next  week. 

Michael  Portillo.  Britain’s 
highly  deregulatory  Employ¬ 
ment  Secretary,  who  only  this 
week  condemned  “tricksters" 
pushing  "schemes,  ruses  or 
some  clever-clever  ideas"  to 
solve  unemployment,  is  un¬ 
likely  to  head  for  Denmark, 
and  his  deputy.  Ann  Widde- 
oombe,  may  well  be  supplant¬ 
ed  by  Baroness  Chaiker. 
Overseas  Development  Minis¬ 
ter  —  though  John  Major  is 
expected  at  a  UN  summit  to 
dose  the  conference. 

The  freemarket  Mr  Portillo 
is  unlikely  to  warm  to  the  sum¬ 
mit  outcome.  Its  draft  conclu- 
sion  commits  UN  countries  “to 
enabling  all  people  to  attain 
secure  and  sustainable  liveli¬ 
hoods  through  freely-chosen 
productive  employment  and 
work,  and  to  maintain  the  goal 
of  full  employment”,  as  well  as 
to  achieving  equality,  promot¬ 
ing  soda!  integration  and 
eradicating  poverty. 

Appearing  on  a  trade  union 
platform  at  a  conference  to 
promote  full  employment  —  a 
concept  with  which  Labour 
leaders,  let  alone  Conserva- 


US  slowdown: 
two  views 
called  Alan 


Source:  !LO  World  Unemployment  Rsport  1995 


tives.  are  uneasy  —  saw  Mr 
Portillo’s  predecessor,  David 
Hunt,  moved  from  his  job. 
and  the  social  summit's 
planned  embrace  of  the  idea 
may  be  more  than  UK  employ¬ 
ment  ministers  can  stomach. 

Equally  so  with  today's  ILO 
report,  since  re-adoption  of  the 
goal  of  full  employment  is  its 
central  policy  prescription. 
Michel  Hansenne.  the  lLO*s 
Director-General,  says  that, 
although  the  post-war  uni¬ 
versal  commitment  to  full 
employment  has  been  eroded, 
“it  is  important  and  timely  to 
revive  that  commitment". 

He  says:  “Its  weakening  has 
led  to  worsening  employment 
conditions  and  foreclosed  nat¬ 
ional  and  international  actions 
that  could  have  made  a  differ¬ 
ence.  Its  revival  will  provide 
the  basis  for  the  renewed 
international  co-operation  that 
is  so  essential  for  solving  the 
employment  crisis." 

The  ILO  report  is  timed  to 
help  to  set  the  agenda  for 
Copenhagen,  which  the  ILO 
sees  as  “a  unique  and  timely 
opportunity  for  the  internat¬ 
ional  community  to  reaffirm  its 
commitment  to  full  employ¬ 
ment  and  to  signal  the  impor¬ 
tance  of  launching  new  initiat¬ 
ives  to  deal  with  the  mounting 
global  employment  problem 
and  attendant  social  ills". 

Conservatives  tend  to  dis¬ 
miss  the  ILO  as  a  bleeding- 
heart  body.  Thp  ILO  officials 
who  wrote  rr-uay’s  repun  !_.,e 
tried  to  counter  such  a  view  by 
beginning  not  from  the  ILO's 
traditional  starting-point  of 
social  justice,  but  from  hard- 
edged  economics.  “The  unem¬ 
ployment  problem  is  the  No  1 
issue  of  the  day  in  v  ms  of 
social  policy,”  says  Eddv  Lee. 
the  principal  aut^r.  “  md  the 
ILO  has  been  relatively  silent” 

Clearly  trying  to  place  the 


study  in  ihe  mainstream  line 
of  recent  international  jobs 
analyses  from  the  OECD  and 
the  European  Commission, 
the  ILO’s  report  team  uses 
extensive  research,  including 
CBI  work  on  long-term  unem¬ 
ployment,  to  demonstrate  the 
“formidable"  challenge  of  re¬ 
storing  full  employment 
around  the  world.  While  ac¬ 
knowledging  that  there  is  “no 
simple  or  painless  solution”  to 
unemployment,  the  ILO  re¬ 
jects  the  “defeatist"  view  that 
nothing  can  be  done. 

"The  current  employment 


Portillo:  _  „n  record 

situation  represents  an  enor¬ 
mous  waste  of  resources  and 
an  unacceptable  level  of  hu¬ 
man  suffering."  it  says.  “It  has 
led  to  growing  social  exclu¬ 
sion,  rising  inequality  between 
and  within  nations,  and  a  host 
of  social  ills.  It  is  thus  both 
morally  unacceptable  and  eco¬ 
nomically  irrational." 

In  line  with  its  claim  to  be 
the  first  smdy  to  tackle  jobs 
and  unemployment  on  a 
world  basis  —  last  year’s 
OECD  Jobs  Study  looked  only 
at  major  industrialised  coun¬ 
tries  —  much  of  the  ILO  work 


concerns  emerging  countries, 
and  the  impact  on  jobs  of 
globalisation  and  changing 
technology  and  trade  patterns. 

While  it  charts  “consistently 
spectacular"  growth  in  South- 
East  Asia,  it  is  gloomy  about 
the  economic  marginalisation 
of  Africa,  and  the  "appalling" 
growth  of  poverty  and  long¬ 
term  unemployment  in  the 
transition  economies  of  East 
and  Central  Europe  since  die 
break-up  of  the  Soviet  Union. 

In  spite  of  this  global  focus, 
it  is  the  report’s  policy  pre¬ 
scriptions  for  jobs  in  industri¬ 
alised  nations  that  are  likely  to 
provoke  most  argument  — 
especially  from  UK  ministers, 
since  it  broadly  rejects  the  de¬ 
regulatory  labour  market  ap¬ 
proach  that  the  Government 
has  followed  since  1979. 

The  ILO  urges  a  “co¬ 
ordinated  expansionary  strat¬ 
egy"  for  producing  economic 
growth  sufficient  to  bring 
Europe  and  other  industrial¬ 
ised  countries  back  to  full 
employment  including  co¬ 
ordinated  reduction  of  short¬ 
term  interest  rates,  a  cut  in 
employers’  social  contribu¬ 
tions  and  direct  budgetary 
stimulation,  such  as  lower 
taxes  or  increased  public 
spending  —  though  it  accepts 
that  the  convergence  terms  of 
the  Maastricht  treaty  leave 
European  countries  little  free¬ 
dom  over  budgetary  policy. 

However,  aside  from  its 
overall  prescription  of  the  re¬ 
adoption  of  full  employment 
as  the  overriding  international 
economic  goal  and  the  “prima¬ 
ry  objective"  of  policies  on 
global  trade,  finance  and  in¬ 
vestment.  the  principal  impact 
on  Britain  of  the  ILO  report  is 
likely  to  be  its  rejection  of 
labour  market  deregulation. 

Citing  the  UK  and  to  some 
extent.  New  Zealand  as  com- 


Joanna  Pitman  says  South  Korea  favours  UK  investment 

The  Samsung  octopus  spreads 
its  tentacles  into  Britain 


First-time  visitors  arriving 
at  South  Korea’s  Inter¬ 
national  Airport  in  Seoul 
are  invariably  astonished  to 
discover  that  they  have  been 
driven  into  town  on  a  road  built 
by  Samsung,  are  staying  in  a 
hotel  owned  by  Samsung, 
make  calls  on  a  Samsung 
telephone  via  a  telecom  net¬ 
work  owned  by  Samsung, 
watch  a  Samsung  television, 
eat  food  processed  by  Samsung 
and  write  letters  home  on 
paper  made  by  Samsung. 

In  their  leisure  hours  they 
may  visit  a  Samsung  depart¬ 
ment  store,  glance  at  a 
Samsung-owned  newspaper, 
watch  a  professional  Samsung 
football  team  in  action  or  visit  a 
Samsung-owned  museum. 

The  Samsung  Group  is  one 
of  South  Korea's  industrial 
conglomerates  known  as 
chaebol ,  set  up  in  the  1930s  and 
modelled  on  Japan's  giant  in¬ 
dustrial  groupings.  They  incor¬ 
porate  a  vast  spread  of 
industrial  and  business  activi¬ 
ties  covering  high  technology, 
heavy  industry,  manufactur¬ 
ing,  service  industries  and  cul¬ 
tural  and  social  activities. 

The  chaebol  have  recently 
become  particularly  relevant  to 
Britain  because  we  may  soon 
be  able  to  sample  the  enormous 
ranges  of  Samsung  products 
and  services,  or  those  of 
Hyundai  or  Goldstar,  without 
having  to  fly  to  Seoul. 

Last  October,  Samsung  Elec¬ 
tronics  announced  the  largest 
direct  investment  by  a  South 
Korean  company  in  Britain 
with  the  development  of  a  £600 
million  complex  in  Teesside 
which  will  begin  producing 
personal  computer  monitors 
and  microwave  ovens  in  Au- 


T-C 


Samsung  factories  manufacture  a  vast  range  of  goods  from  paper  to  electronics 


gust  and,  from  early  1997,  fax 
machines,  colour  display  tubes 
and  personal  computers. 

The  investment,  which  is 
expected  to  bring  more  than 
3.000  new  jobs  to  the  region,  is 
only  one  of  a  variety  of  direct 
investments  in  Britain  made  in 
the  past  few  years  by  compo¬ 
nent  companies  within  Sam¬ 
sung.  the  fourteenth  largest 
industrial  group  in  the  world. 
The  first  was  in  19S6,  when 
Samsung  Electronics  put  E17 
million  into  a  colour  TV  manu¬ 
facturing  plant  in  Biliingham. 

Other  South  Korean  indus¬ 
trial  groups  are  also  looking  to 
Bricain.  Daewoo  Electronics. 


part  of  the  Daewoo  chaebol. 
has  put  £35  million  into  a 
manufacturing  plant  in  An¬ 
trim.  Northern  Ireland,  which 
employs  700  people  producing 
video  cassette  recorders. 

In  1988.  Goldstar  Electric, 
another  of  the  top  four  chaebol 
and  ranked  by  Fortune  maga¬ 
zine  as  the  3lst  largest  electron¬ 
ics  maker  worldwide,  invested 
£8  million  in  a  manufacturing 
plant,  in  Tyne  and  Wear,  which 
now  produces  200,000  micro- 
wave  ovens  a  year. 

For  South  Korean  investors 
the  language  factor  weighs 
heavily  in  favour  of  Britain  as 
opposed  to  Germany.  France 


or  other  EU  countries.  As  long 
as  the  South  Korean  economy 
continues  to  grow  and  the 
chaebol  continue  to  follow  that 
fashionable  if  expensive  strate¬ 
gy  of  going  global.  South 
Korean  investments  in  Britain 
are  likely  to  continue. 

Given  that  the  Japanese  in¬ 
vestment  wave  brought  kara¬ 
oke  to  our  pubs,  Sumo 
wrestling  to  our  television 
screens  and  a  huge  choice  of 
dried  seaweeds  to  our  comer 
shops,  ii  will  not  be  long  before 
gourmet  trendsetters  are  ago¬ 
nising  over  the  choice  of  lamchi 
pickles  for  their  dinner  party 
tables. 


ing  closest  to  a  full  “experi¬ 
ment"  in  deregulation,  the 
smdy  argues  that  "in  neither 
. . .  has  deregulation  resulted 
unambiguously  in  improved 
labour  market  performance". 

It  says  that  “a  purely  (or 
mainly)  deregulatory  route  to 
greater  labour  market  flexibility 
will  not  be  a  panarea”  for  un¬ 
employment  and  “is  likely  to  in¬ 
volve  a  tradeoff  in  terms  of 
greater  inequality  and  poverty". 

Deregulation  involves  “sac¬ 
rifice"  of  what  the  ILO  lists  as 
“considerable  benefits  which 
flow  from  an  appropriately 
regulated  labour  market”  in¬ 
cluding  the  likelihood  of  train¬ 
ing,  and  increasing  productive 
efficiency  through  competition 
incentives  that  flow  more  from 
product  market  than  labour 
market  policies. 

The  ILO  believes  that  the 
impact  on  jobs  of  minimum 
wages  is  "insignificant":  that 
strong  workplace  employee 
bodies  will  lead  to  greater  prod¬ 
uctivity;  and  that  international 
labour  standards,  such  as  those 
from  Brussels  opposed  by  the 
UK.  are  vital  if  globalisation  is 
to  proceed  “benignly". 

Little,  if  any.  of  this  will  be 
music  to  the  Government's 
ears  —  though  most  wili  be 
unexceptional  to  most  ILO 
countries.  Copenhagen  will 
sound  further  tunes  that  Brit¬ 
ish  ministers  will  not  like. 

None  of  it,  however,  will 
divert  the  Government  from 
its  particular  conduct  of  the 
labour  market  With  British 
unemployment  now  down  by 
dose  on  600,000.  or  20  per 
cent  since  its  peak  at  the  end 
of  1992,  at  the  same  time  as  it  is 
continuing  to  rise  in  many 
similar  industrialised  coun¬ 
tries,  ministers  will  rest  on 
their  record,  regardless  of  how 
out  of  step  international  scepti¬ 
cism  may  view  them. 


The  recent  rally  in  the 
US  bond  market  re¬ 
flects  a  growing  Wall 
Street  view  that  the  Fed  has 
got  it  right  the  un sustain¬ 
ably  rapid  growth  sees  in 
1994  will  end  in  a  soft 
landing.  Some  statistics 
have  been  suggesting  as 
much  for  the  past  three 
months,  and  the  most  recent 
inflation  figures  have  been 
encouraging;  but  what 
seems  to  have  encouraged 
investors  most  is  an  assess¬ 
ment  from  a  recent  recruit  to 
the  Fed  Board  of  Governors, 
Alan  S  Blinder.  The  risks  for 
the  economy,  he  announced, 
now  looked  more  symmetri¬ 
cal  than  for  some  time.  If  he 
spoke  for  the  Board  as  a 
whole,  that  would  be  a  dear 
sign  that  the  next  move  in 
rates  was  now  as  likely  to  be 
down  as  up. 

But  Blinder  is  not  the 
most  influential  Alan  on  the 
Fed  Board;  so  the  markets 
will  have  listened  even  more 
closely  than  usual  to  Alan 
Greenspan,  the  Chairman, 
when  he  gave  his  Hum- 
phrey-H  a wki  ns  evidence  on 
the  economy  to  Congress. 
They  will  no  doubt  have 
been  as  frustrated  as  usual: 
Greenspan  is  a  past  master 
at  a  folksy  frankness  that 
gives  away  nothing.  But 
ambiguity  will  not  still  the 
suspicion  that  he  is  much 
less  relaxed  about  the  pros¬ 
pect  than  his  colleague.  Not 
perhaps  Alan  the  Terrible, 
as  Robert  Brusca  of  Nikko 
Securities  christened  him 
this  week  (in  contrast  to 
Alan  the  Soft),  but  at  the  very 
least  Alan  the  Unready. 

There  is  good  reason  for 
hesitation.  Only  two  slow¬ 
down  indicators  are  wholly 
dear  the  steep  fall  in  house 
sales  and  housing  starts, 
down  some  15  per  cent  from 
their  peak,  and  the  renewed 
airline  price  warfare.  This  is 
now  so  desperate  that  the 
operators  are  risking  strife 
with  their  own  ticket  agents. 
It  has  already  led  to  order¬ 
ing  delays  and  layoffs  in  the 
aircraft  factories.  Other 
signs  fall  into  the  sigh-of- 
relief  class.  Base  metal 
prices  have  relapsed  by 
more  than  10  per  cent,  but 
are  still  hugely  up  on  an 
annual  measure.  The  steel 
industry,  which  tried  to  raise 
prices  10  per  cent  in  January, 
is  yielding  to  customer  resis¬ 
tance.  but  prices  are  still  up. 
Most  indicators,  though. 


show  an  economy  levelling 
out  on  a  high  plateau.  Retail 
sales  have  barely  inched  up 
during  the  last  quarter,  but 
are  some  8  per  cent  up  on 
1994  in  real  terms.  Car  sales 
are  short  of  Detroit  hopes, 
but  still  near  a  record,  as  are 
most  consumer  durables.  In¬ 
vestment  spending  and  ex¬ 
ports  remain  strong,  it  is  all 
a  little  like  measuring  your 
children’s  height  monthly 
on  the  bathroom  door  infor¬ 
mative.  but  hard  to  extrapo¬ 
late.  It  is  too  early  to  be  sure 
whether  demand  has  turned 
sluggish,  or  is  simply  paus¬ 
ing  for  breath,  as  it  usually 
does  at  some  stage  during  a 
strong  US  expansion. 

Where  facts  are  hard  to 
read,  theory  is  the  fall-back 
guide,  and  both  Greenspan 
(a  real-economy  man)  and 
his  monetarist  colleagues 
can  find  reason  for  doubt. 
The  Fed’s  measure  of  capac¬ 
ity  utilisation  still  shows 
rising  strain;  so  do  anec¬ 
dotes  of  shortages  of  con¬ 
tainers  and  the  ships  to 
move  them.  Commercial 
bank  lending  growth  accel¬ 
erated  to  a  7.6  per  cent 
growth  rate  m  the  latest 
three  months,  and  finance 
company  credit  (mainly  to 
consumers)  to  a  135  per  cent 
rate  in  the  quarter  ended  last 
December.  No  ■  nT  this 
suggests  a  soft  'arming 


All  the  sar  ,  .lie  bond 
market  looks  opti¬ 
mistic.  and  could  be 
justified.  Industrial  capacity 
is  an  estimate,  not  an  objec¬ 
tive  measure;  aund  in  the  US, 
as  in  this  country,  it  seems 
more  elastic  than  past  expe¬ 
rience  might  suggest  Com¬ 
mercial  credit  is  downright 
ambiguous:  rising  borrow¬ 
ing  may  mean  expansion, 
but  can  equally  reflect  disap¬ 
pointing  sales,  as  unwanted 
stocks  have  to  be  financed. 
Consumer  confidence  has 
softened  sharply  since  the 
turn  of  the  year,  and  borrow¬ 
ing  may  follow. 

The  biggest  imponderable 
is  the  impact  of  economic 
stringency  in  America’s  two 
biggest  export  markets,  Mex¬ 
ico  and  Canada.  Canada  is 
soft,  and  Latin  American 
demand  may  well  have  fallen 
off  a  cliff  for  the  time  bring. 
The  odds,  then,  seem  to 
favour  the  Blinder  view.  But 
it  is  still  a  matter  of  odds: 
backing  the  US  market  re¬ 
covery  is  a  measured  risk. 


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32  PRIVATE  BANKING  _ the  times  Wednesday  February  22.1995 

Big  players  are  muscling  in  as  they  are  attracted  to  both  domestic  and  international  private  banking,  reports  Patricia  Tehqn 

I  Whenab^kerl 

needs  to  be  like 


w1 


hii".' 


Private  banks  an?  victims  of 
their  own  success.  They 
have  proved  to  bs  such 
fantastic  profit-generators, 
so  adaptable  to  changes  in  their 
marketplace,  and  so  responsive  to 
customer  needs,  that  they  have 
attracted  growing  competition 
from  new  rivals. 

Private  bankers  say  it  is  becom¬ 
ing  increasingly  difficult  to  work 
out  who  their  competitors  are  as 
high  street  banks,  merchant  banks, 
overseas  banks,  fund  managers, 
accountants  and  lawyers  compete 
to  provide  asset  management  ser¬ 
vices  and  financial  advice  to 
wealthy  customers. 

Until  very  recently  private  bank¬ 
ing  has  been  a  fragmented  market, 
with  strong  domestic  players  domi¬ 
nating  their  home  markets,  grow¬ 
ing  their  business  slowly,  with  new 
business  coming  from  personal 
recommendation. 

But  this  is  changing  as  banking 
markets  are  deregulated  and  cus¬ 
tomers  increasingly  expect  more  in 
the  way  of  both  service  and 
products  from  their  banks.  In  the 
UK  die  wealth  of  die  population  is 
growing  as  people  inherit  money 
and  property  from  their  parents. 

Big  players  are  muscling  in  to 
both  domestic  and  international 
private  banking,  bringing  more 
capital  and  therefore  more  competi¬ 
tion.  At  the  end  of  last  year 
Deutsche  Bank  announced  its  in¬ 
tention  to  become  one  of  Europe’s 
pre-eminent  private  banks. 

A  survey  due  next  month  from 
Price  Waterhouse's  management 
consultancy  is  expected  to  show 
that  private  banks  see  competition 
as  their  biggest  threat  However, 
Ian  Woodhouse,  the  author  of  Price 
Waterhouse's  European  Private 
Banking  Survey,  says  the  turmoil 
in  the  bond  and  equity  markets  last 
year,  and  the  fall  in  the  value  of 
funds  under  management,  have 
also  been  a  cause  for  concern  for 
private  banks. 

George  Alford,  head  of  private 
banking  ar  Kleinwon  Benson,  says 
that  it  has  become  harder  to 
identify  competitors.  He  says: 
There  has  been  a  sense  in  some 
parts  of  the  industry  that  die 
private  area  is  more  profitable  than 
other  areas  in  which  banks  have 
not  been  so  successful.  The  indus¬ 
try  has  a  long  tradition  of  swinging 
from  one  fashionable  market  to 
another  and  bade  again." 

Klein  wort  set  up  its  private 
banking  division  in  1989  by  draw¬ 
ing  together  its  banking  and  invest¬ 
ment  products  businesses,  though 
it  had  been  offering  investment 
management  and  mortgage  ser¬ 
vices  to  individuals  through  differ¬ 
ent  parts  of  the  group  for  many 
years. 

However.  Mr  Alford  adds:  “We 
use  the  term  private  banking  less 
publicly  now  because  it  is  a  term 
that  has  been  taken  downmarket 
by  lots  of  people  rushing  in  and 
trying  to  put  a  label  on  standards  of 


the  family  doctor 


A  private  bank  stands  or 
foils  by  the  quality  of  its 
service.  Fees  are  normal¬ 
ly  of  secondary  importance  to  a 
wealthy  client  impressed  by 
cachet  and  seeking  sophisticated 
discretionary  portfolio  manage¬ 
ment 

Nor,  given  his  high  tax  liabil¬ 
ity,  is  a  client  likely  to  wony 
about  die  interest  which  a  few 
thousand  pounds  might  earn  in 
a  building  society  instead. 

So  the  personal  touch  is 


Background  and  education, 
can  vary,  essentially  it  is  person- 
al  qualities  rather  than  paper 
qualifications  tirat  msteaass- 
S3  private  banker.  CMd  & 
Co  is  fortunate  in  being  able  to 
call  on  the  resources  of  its 
parent,  the  Royal  Bank  of 

Scotland.  . 

“Oar  tax  expert  comes  from 
the  RBS  Trust  and  Tax  depart¬ 
ment"  Mr  French  says. 
“Another  recruit  spent  his  early 
years  in  offshore  companies  m 


So  the  personal  xouen  i&  ,  J — v^qTc,tq 

everything.  Every  client  is  as-  the Channel ^rtosandtfie Isle 
signed  his  own  relationship  ^  oAcre  ^  to 


James  Cooper,  chief  executive  of  Uoyds  Private  Banking:  high  street  banks  are  working  hard  to  keep  their  wealthy  customers 


In  search  of  a 
niche  in  the 
market-place 


service  which  we  do  not  think  are 
high  enough." 

Typically,  the  merchant  banks  do 
not  offer  personal  bank  accounts, 
but  sell  investment  services. 

Mr  Alford  says  Klein  wort  is 
investigating  new  products  all  the 
time.  Klein  wort  launched  a  high- 
interest  cheque  account  in  1984.  its 
new  Investor's  Deposit  Account, 
earning  returns  linked  to  the 
performance  of  the  stock  market 
and  tried  out  as  a  pilot  last  year,  is 
to  be  launched  to  all  customers  in 
April. 

Private  banking  has  become  a 
hot  topic  for  British  banks.  When  it 
canvassed  its  320  members  to  find 
out  how  many  had  private  banking 


interests,  the  British  Bankers' Asso¬ 
ciation  was  surprised  when  65 
registered  interest  At  the  end  of 
last  year  it  set  up  a  new  advisory 
committee. 

For  the  very  wealthy,  private 
banking  is  no  longer  a  domestic 

affair 

A  spokeswoman  for  the  BBA  said 
that  private  banks’  customers  are 
increasingly  interested  in  tilings 
other  than  domestic  stocks  and 
domestic  deposits.  “It  is  a  reflection 
of  the  increasing  international  in¬ 
vestment  profile  of  clients  that 
international  private  banking  is 
becoming  an  issue,"  she  says. 

Customers  are  expecting  more 
from  their  banks.  They  expect  more 


portfolio  management  and  in- 
house  investment  funds,  as  well  as 
foreign  exchange  expertise.  Prod¬ 
ucts  are  becoming  more  global, 
which  makes  it  more  costly  for  the 
banks  to  do  business  as  a  result  of 
higher  staff  and  infrastructure 
costs  and  a  squeeze  on  margins. 

As  customers  become  more  fi¬ 
nancially  aware,  they  are  also 
becoming  more  demanding.  Nicho¬ 
las  Grant,  chairman  of  Duncan 
Lawrie.  toe  UK  private  bank,  says: 
"Customers  are  getting  more  so¬ 
phisticated  all  the  time.  They  are  no 
longer  happy  just  to  have  their 
money  sitting  in  a  Swiss  bank 
account  earning  next  to  nothing. 
They  want  to  see  more  return.” 


As  investors'  interest  in  emerging 
markets  and  global  capital  markets 
grows,  private  banking  products 
are  becoming  more  global  and 
more  complex.  Internationally,  pri¬ 
vate  banking  is  a  growth  business. 

As  new  sources  of  wealth  are 
created  in  the  Far  East  and  the 
former  Soviet  Union,  international 
private  banks  will  be  successful 
only  if  they  can  understand  the 
structural  changes  in  their  market 
place. 

In  fact,  the  Swiss  banks,  notably 
UBS  and  Credit  Suisse,  are  becom¬ 
ing  more  aggressive.  Mr 
Woodhouse  says  that  the  Swiss 
bank  operations  used  to  be  able  to 
sit  back  and  wait  for  money  to  flow 
in.  “Now  they  are  having  to  be 
more  aggressive  in  terms  of  going 
out  and  seeking  wealth  and  identi¬ 
fying  the  needs  of  their  customers, 
he  says. 

The  high  street  banks,  which 
have  in  the  past  lost  their  wealthy' 
clients  to  private  banking  rivals, 
are  now  working  much  harder  to 
keep  them. 

Lloyds  moved  into  the  domestic 
private  banking  market  ten  years 
ago  and  launched  Uoyds  Private 
Banking  in  1992.  Barclays  and 
Midland  have  newer  private  bank¬ 
ing  operations.  National  Westmin¬ 
ster  is  more  established  in  private 
banking  than  the  others,  with  its 
separately  branded  Coutts. 


manager  whose  subtle  blend  of 
rharm,  prudence  and  authority 
wifl,  it  is  hoped,  assure  a  client's 
continuing  loyalty. 

According  to  a  recent  survey 
by  the  accountants  Price  Water- 
house,  service  quality  and  brand 
image  are  the  bey  factors  attract¬ 
ing  new  clients. 

Apparently  14 
per  cent  of  clients 
who  walk  out  on 
their  private 
bank  do  so 
because  they  axe 
dissatisfied  with 
its  service.  This 
may  not  seem  an 
enormous  pro¬ 
portion.  but  in  to¬ 
day's  competitive 
climate,  estab¬ 
lished  private 
banks  are  under 
pressure  to  add 
value  to  current  Warwick  h 

levels  of  dient  are  heat 
support  through 
staff  training  and  development 

They  cannot  afford  to  rest  on 
their  laurels  and  they  know  it 
But  finding  and  keeping  quali¬ 
fied  staff  with  the  special  person¬ 
al  qualities  needed  to  promote 
happy  dient  relationships  is  not 
easy. 

Roy  French,  private  banking 
manager  at  Child  &  Co.  stresses 
the  importance  of  low  staff 
turnover.  Most  clients  like  to  see 
their  relationship  manager  as 
philosopher,  guide  and  friend, 
and  fed  disoriented  by  change. 
Continuity  and  stability  make 
clients  fed  secure,  as  does  a 
measure  of  maturity.  “We  look 
for  maturity  in  our  staff”  says 
Mr  French.  “We  wouldn’t 
dream  of  assigning  a  20.  or  even 
a  30-year-old  to  deal  with  a 
middle-aged  or  elderly 
customer." 


Warwick  Newbury:  “We 
are  head-hunting” 


bred  ourselves,  recruiting 
straight  from  school  or 
university." 

Some  newcomers  to  private 
banking  are  pushing  hard  to 
recruit  staff  with  established 
reputations  in  the  older  banks. 
And  American  institutions, 
which  pay  gener¬ 
ously  for..;  high 
performance,  are 
also  targeting  top 
relationship  offi¬ 
cers  at  traditional 
British  banks., 
Coutts  is  directly 
in  their  sights. 

Warwick 
Newbury,  who 
heads  Gonitis's 
UK  private  bank¬ 
ing  operations,  is 
confident,  how¬ 
ever.  that  the  old 
firm  can  repel 
vbury:“We  head-hunters 
uniting"  with  competitive 
salaries: 

“We  are  also  head-hunting 
relationship  managers,”  he  says. 
Coutts  employs  75  of  such  man¬ 
agers  (it  has  about  30  product 
managers).  Mr  Newbury  looks 
for  the  un glamorous  quality  of 
common  sense  and  the  tact  and 
sensitivity  of  a  good  GP.  A  sense 
of  timing  is  also  useful,  “to  know 
at  what  point  in  a  consultation  to 
refer  a  dient  to  a  specialist  more 
qualified  to  advise  on  perhaps  a 
mortgage  scheme  or  pension 
plan”. 

The  fear  of  losing  valuable 
staff  to  competitors  is  making 
relative  newcomers  like  Lloyds- 
and  Barclays,  as  well  as  Coutts, 
introduce  more  performance- 
related  pay.  Coutts  has  also 
upgraded  its  -  bonus  scheme.  - 
Child  &  Co  will  follow  suit' 

...  David  Rudnick 


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The  number  of  private 
banks  has  mushroomed 
over  the  past  decade  to 
cater  for  the  new  rich  who 
flowered  in  the  freebooting 
1980s,  David  Rudnick  writes. 

The  youngest  market  debu¬ 
tante  is  Midland  Private 
Banking,  which  opened  its 
first  branches  last  July.  “Long- 
established  players  are  not 
necessarily  best  placed  to  take 
advantage  of  the  opportunity 
offered  by  the  distribution  of 
wealth  across  a  greater  num¬ 
ber  of  individuals,”  says  the 
head  of  marketing,  Lucy 
Weldon.  Midland  believes 
strongly  in  opening  offices  all 
over  the  country  to  provide  a 
local  service  for  private  clients. 

Two  of  the  other  main 
clearers,  Barclays  and  Lloyds, 
have  opened  private  banking 
subsidiaries  over  the  past  few 
years.  All  are  attracted  by 
returns  well  above  recent  lev¬ 
els  in  retail  banking.  Barclays, 
established  just  over  IS 
months  ago,  uses  its  extensive  | 
international  network  to  ; 
maximise  the  investment  po¬ 
tential  of  private  banking 
funds  in  the  UK.  Barclays 
expect  clients  to  have  at  least 
£250,000  of  mvestable  assets 
—  a  high  figure  compared 
with  Lloyds'  £75,000,  Mid¬ 
land's  £100.000,  or  even 
Coutts  "5  £150,000.  According 
to  Heather  Mabels,  Barclays’ 
UK  private  banking  director: 
They  are  targeting  a  different 
market  with  their  lower  mini¬ 
mum  thresholds.  Our  average 
balances  are  over  £1  million." 

Llqyds  also  has  an 
upmarket  service  cater¬ 
ing  for  high  net-worth 
individuals  in  toe  £250.000- 
plus  bracket  The  service  is 
geared  towards  investment 
management,  which  Lloyds 
claims  accounts  for  about  two- 
thirds  of  toe  £6  billion  of 
private  banking  funds  it  has 
under  management 
Though  private  banking 
may  still  be  modest  in  scale 
compared  with  the  whole  re¬ 
tail  banking  sector,  it  already 
provides  a  respectable  income 
for  the  high  street  banks.  But 
critics  wonder  whether  they 
are  not  shooting  themselves  in 
toe  foot  by  wooing  wealthy 
customers  away  from  their 
own  refoil  branches  to  their 
new  private  banks. 

James  Cooper,  chief  execu¬ 
tive  at  Lloyds  Private  Banking, 
says:  “We  are  only  taking 
away  investment  banking  and 


The  high  street  banks  are  branching 
out  into  a  venerable  sector 


other  planning  and  advisory 
work  that  our  retail  branches 
wouldn't  touch  anyway." 

Midland  branch  managers 
are  asked  to  introduce  appro¬ 
priate  customers  to  private 
banking,  but  Ms  Weldon  says 
toe  branches  continue  to  share 
the  client  relationship.  “They 
still  provide  day-to-day  ser¬ 
vices  to  Midland  Private 
Banking  clients,  like  paying  in 
cheques  and  withdrawing 
money.  Also,  private  banking 
offices  are  located  within  an 
existing  branch  or  local  area 
office,  and  our  private  bank¬ 
ing  profit  is  reported  as  an 
integral  pan  of  Midland 


branch  banking's  profits." 

National  Westminster,  toe 
other  main  UK  dearer,  has  a 
powerful  stake  in  private 
banking  through  its  owner¬ 
ship  of  Coutts.  NalWest  itself 
is  offering  relationship  bank¬ 
ing  services  through  branch- 
based  personal  account 
executives.  “This  is  not  private 
banking  in  the  truest  sense;"  a 
spokesman  said,  “since  we  are 
aiming  at  lower  net-worth  cus¬ 
tomers.  But  we  do  offer  finan¬ 
cial  advice  and  similar 
products  to  people  whose  in¬ 
come  and  assets  don’t  mea¬ 
sure  up  to  Coutts 's  require¬ 
ments." 


NatWesfs  minimum  annu¬ 
al  income  benchmark  is  about 
£35.000  for  “up  and  coming 
clients”  with  a  minimum  capi¬ 
tal  of  around  £85,000. 

What  do  toe  old  guard  think 
of  afl  these  parvenus?  On  the 
whole  they  accept  the  need  to 
shake  off  their  elitist  oki  school 
tie  image  and  open  their  doors 
to  a  wider  public. 

However,  Richard  Hoare,  a 
director  of  Hoare  &  Co.  one  of 
Britain’s  oldest  and  most  ven¬ 
erable  private  banks,  and  toe 
only  one  still  in  family  hands, 
finds  it  deplorable  that  “a  lot  of 
people  who  call  themselves 
private  bankers  are  nothing  of 
toe  sort;  they  are  merely  trying 
to  sell  financial  products, 
mainly  fund  management 
and  pass  it  off  as  private 
banking". 


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A  private  banker  ran  be  a 
maid  of  all  work  to  the  rich: 

todian  htS5‘ fund  mana8er-  cus- 

Dnviiio  ^W^!r  ~  ewn  nanny. 
Uavxd  Rudmck  writes.  Clients  are 

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radmg  seeuriries  and  hold 
ing  them  in  safe  custody,  findin 
tne  most  tax-efficient  ways  c 
making  a  will,  and  generally 
providing  a  person ally-tailored 
suit  a  client’s  needs. 
Nothing  is  too  much  trouble. 
Lloyds  wilt  make  hotel  bookings 
and  medical  appointments;  some 
other  banks  will  collect  your 
cntldren  from  school  or  your  yacht 
from  Cannes. 

But  portfolio  management 

nhthl«.  Ik.  _ -  f7  ... 


Private  bankers  can  now  provide  bespoke  services  for 
clients  from  writing  a  will  to  collecting  the  family  yacht 


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probably  the  key  service;  adminis¬ 
tering  a  client’s  income,  protecting 
nis  assets  and  helping  him  to  make 
more  From  what  he  has. 

Why.  though,  should  a  client  go 
to  a  bank  for  the  whole  gamut  of 
specialised  financial  services  when 
it  has  less  expertise  than  profes¬ 
sional  specialists?  Surely  the  sav¬ 


ing  in  time  and  inconvenience  may 
be  outweighed  by  getting  a  second- 
best  service? 

The  question  is  taken  seriously. 
“We  never  go  further  than  our 
cap bili ties.”  says  Roy  French, 
private  banking  manager  at  Child 
&  Co.  “We  know  who  to  turn  to  for 
expert  advice,  even  though  we 
employ  specialists  ourselves." 

James  Cooper,  chief  executive  at 
Lloyds  Private  Bank,  adds:  “We 
can  access  specialist  services  in  tax 
management,  will  preparation 
and  administration,  and  trustee 
services  —  though  business  in  the 
latter  has  slowed  considerably 
since  leaving  assets  in  trust  form  is 
much  less  tax-advantageous  than 
it  used  (o  be." 

Barclays,  a  relative  newcomer  to 
private  banking,  defines  it  as 
integrated  asset  management, 
though  Heather  Maizels.  who 
directs  UK  operations,  acknowl¬ 


edges  that  the  concept  is  not 
always  understood.  “Traditional¬ 
ly.  private  clients  in  the  UK  have 
bought  their  services  in  a  disaggre¬ 
gated  way  —  through  a  stockbro¬ 
ker  for  shares,  a  banker  for  cash 
services,  a  lawyer  for  trusts  and 
wills,  or  an  accountant  for  rax  and 
financial  planning." 

She  finds  that  diems  and  regula¬ 
tors  have  difficulty  understanding 
how  one  individual  can  deliver  all 
these  services. 

Integrated  asset  management 
can  certainly  avoid  the  inconsis¬ 
tent  financial  planning  that  may 
result  from  conflicting  advice  from 
several  sources.  Against  that,  en¬ 
trusting  all  your  assets  to  a  single 
pair  of  hands  can  result  in  your 
nominally  “independent"  mentor 
putting  your  funds  into  hjs  fa¬ 
voured  investment  or  unit  trusts. 
Nick  Haynes,  head  of  private 
portfolio  management  at  KJein- 


wort  Benson,  says  candidly:  “Nor¬ 
mally  we  do  offer  in-house  funds, 
particularly  our  unit  trusts  — 
unless  clients  stipulate  otherwise, 
which  occasionally  they  do." 

Kleinwort  Benson  is  one  old 
firm  that  is  responding  to  the 
challenge  of  the  big  clearing  banks 
with  new  (or  revamped)  products. 
It  recently  launched  a  Residential 
Care  Scheme  aimed  at  those 
compelled  by  the  self-help  provi¬ 
sions  of  the  1993  Community  Care 
Act  to  fend  more  for  themselves  in 
insuring  for  their  old  age. 

Specialist  insurance  services  are 
a  burgeoning,  fairly  new  product 
attuned  to  the  more  defensive 
financial  climate  of  the  1990s. 
Midland  Private  Banking,  the 
latest  clearing  bank  on  the  scene, 
specifies  an  insurance  background 
as  a  desirable  qualification  for 
staff.  Lucy  Weldon,  head  of  mar¬ 
keting,  sees  “a  new  trend  towards 


deposit-based  products  among  in¬ 
dividuals  who  see  wealth  preserva¬ 
tion  rather  than  capital  growth  as 
a  key  objective".  On  the  other 
hand,  James  Cooper  at  Lloyds 
finds  his  clients  are  demanding  "a 
more  dynamic  approach.  The 
main  emphasis  is  on  asset  man¬ 
agement  rather  than  wealth 
preservation." 

Already  loan  business  is  appar¬ 
ently  being  downgraded  by  many, 
if  not  most  private  bankers.  Roy 
French  at  Child  &  Co  says  the 
depressive  effects  of  recession, 
combined  with  more  competition 
caused  by  the  entry  of  the  big 
clearers.  has  sharply  reduced  mar¬ 
gins  on  lending,  making  it  one  of 
the  least  attractive  lines  in  the 
business. 

“Investment  services  are  proba¬ 
bly  the  most  profitable,  with  good 
fees  to  be  made  from  good  perfor¬ 
mance,"  he  says.  Barclays  also  feel 
its  cash  management  services 
show  particular  promise,  but. 
somewhat  against  the  trend, 
Coutts  says  lending  remains  its 
major  product,  at  least  in  the  UK- 


Safe  hands;  some  banks  will  even  collect  your  child  from  school 


British  rich  share 
£120  billion  hoard 


HIGH  NETWORTH  INDIVIDUALS 

Global  HNWI  wealth  totals  $12  trillion... 

Middle  East 
10% 


Private  banking  is 
growing  as  the 
wealthy  increase  in 
number.  The  global 
market  is  expanding  at  an 
estimated  16  per  cent  annual¬ 
ly.  and  individuals  with  liquid 
assets  exceeding  $1  million 
dispose  of  an  astronomical  $10 
trillion. 

All  developed  countries  are 
sharing  in  the  growth  bur 
expansion  is  particularly 
strong,  says  James  Cooper, 
chief  executive  of  Lloyds  Pri¬ 
vate  Banking,  in  the  Pacific 
rim  and  the  United  States 
"which  will  be  a  vast  market 
by  the  end  of  the  decade". 

Europe  is  not  expected  to 
show  the  same  dynamic 
growth,  though  Switzerland, 
the  traditional  safe  haven,  is 
still  attracting  sizeable  funds 
from  countries  such  as  Hol¬ 
land  and  Germany. 

In  the  UK.  there  are  around 
1 2  million  high-net-worth  in¬ 
dividuals  and  their  number  is 
rising  by  more  than  5  per  cent 
a  year,  according  to  a  survey 
by  management  consultants 
Datamonitor.  Its  definition  of 
hlgh-net-worth  is  generous;  it 
takes  £50,000  in  liquid  assets 
as  the  threshold,  though  most 
private  banks  insist  on  their 
clients  owning  considerably 
more.  . . 

On  that  broad  basis  around 
£120  billion  is  in  play,  a 
startling  45  per  cent  of  it  held 
by  about  half  a  million  elderly 
people  owning  on  average 
£100.000  of  liquid  assets.  The 
survey  considers  most  older 
people  to  be  financially  unso- 


The  number  of 
well-off  people  in 
the  world  is 
growing,  says 

David  Rudnick 


phis  orated.  but  as  the  UK 
population  ages  they  are  ex¬ 
pected  to  provide  a  built-in 
market  growth  factor  —  once 
they  are  systematically  tar¬ 
geted. 

Next  in  importance,  with  L2 
per  cent  of  the  potential  mar¬ 
ket.  come  inheritors  of  proper¬ 
ty  who  choose  to  sell  it  and 
invest  the  lump  sum.  There 
are  more  than  100.000  of  them 
with  £76,000  on  average  to 
play  with.  This  is  low  for  most 
private  bankers  but  the  catego¬ 
ry  is  growing. 

“Young  people  inheriting 
parents'  and  relations'  funds 
will  accelerate  demand  for 
private  banking  services,  but 
much  will  depend  on  growth 
in  house  prices."  says  Mr 
Cooper.  On  the  other  hand,  he 
adds,  old  people  are  living 
longer  and  needing  to  spend 
more  of  their  own  money  on 
health  care  and  general  living 
expenses,  leaving  less  to  their 
heirs. 

On  the  supply  side,  banks 
say  they  have  been  attracted 
into  the  market  as  the  returns 
on  retail  banking  have  fallen. 
"Private  banking  requires  lit¬ 
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from  services  offered  can  bene¬ 
fit  both  client  and  bank." 
explains  Mr  Cooper. 

But  isn’t  the  market  getting 
overcrowded  with  new  players 
moving  in?  Not  at  all.  says 
Warwick  Newbury,  head  of 
Coutts’  UK  private  banking 
operations.  “The  market  re¬ 
mains  largely  untapped.  A  lot 
of  new  players  are  coming  in 
but  there  have  been  no  drop¬ 
outs  in  recent  years." 

Some  Swiss  banks,  how¬ 
ever.  have  come  and  gone. 
“They  have  not  found  the  UK 
scene  too  congenial.”  Mr 
Newbury  says.  “It's  too  equity 
oriented  for  their  taste,  differ¬ 
ent  from  the  bond-based  cul¬ 
ture  they're  used  to.” 

The  "unruffled,  old-world 
charm  of  private  banking 
could  soon  be  an  outmoded 
cliche  as  gentlemen  and  new 
players  mix  it  in  a  tougher 
market  place  peopled  by  a 
much  less  exclusive  clientele. 


Europe 
'  24% 


...  a  quarter  of  this  wealth  is  held  off-shore 


Off-shore  HNWI  wealth 
$3.3  trillion 


Middle  East 
Latin  15% 

lAmerica  / 

15% 


Europe 

35% 


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Funds  held  by  foreign 
private  clients  fn  Switzerland 
51.1  trillion 

Middle  East 

Latin  1®%  Europe 

America 
10%  -*** 


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North  America 
10% 


Asia/Pacific  North  America 
15%  20% 

Source:  Gemini  Lorenz  Curve  analysis:  HNWIs  with  over  S500.000  In  financial 
assets,  Swiss  National  Bank  and  Gemini  Interviews  of  Swiss  Bankers 

Slices  of  the  cake  the  world’s  wealthiest  people 


Merchant  bonks  are 
lacing  what  is  likely 
to  be  one  of  the  most 
critical  periods  in  their  150- 
year  existence. 

Huge  financial  losses 
caused  by  volatile  global  equi¬ 
ty  and  bond  markets  durmg 
1994.  coupled  with  a  dramatic 
drop  in  all-round  trading  pros¬ 
pects  for  this  year,  have  forced 
these  hitherto  lofty  City  insti¬ 
tutions  to  rethink  their  busi¬ 
ness  strategy.  And  private 
diems  could  lead  the  way  back 
to  corporate  recovery. 

A  report  published  this 
month  by  Datamonitor.  the 
management  consultancy, 
predicts  that  trading  for  mer¬ 
chant  banks  is  expected  to  fall 
this  year.  It  says:  “Overall 
trading  revenues  are  likely  to 
be  significantly  down  on  the 
previous  year  with  losses  for 
some  banks.  Consequently, 
capital  markets  will  decline  as 
a  proportion  of  overall  operat¬ 
ing  income:" 

The  report  continues:  “Trad¬ 
ing  activities  are  the  linchpin 
of  merchant  banking  reve¬ 
nues.  and  are  die  ‘make  or 
break’  activity  for  many 
banks.  As  a  consequence,  total 
operating  income  is  likely  to  be 
lower  than  last  year." 

Nor  can  merchant  banks 


Critical 
time  for 
City  banks 

Merchant  banks 
are  more  flexible 
about  their  clients 


rely  solely  on  a  steady  stream 
of  fee  income  from  corporate 
finance  work  to  bolster  their 
fortunes,  although  this  type  of 
activity  is  expected  to  pick  up 
this  year,  as  is  corporate 
banking.  But  new  company 
issues,  another  source  of  busi¬ 
ness  for  merchant  banks,  face 
a  testing  time  when  they  make 
their  stock  market  debut  As 
Datamonitor  points  out: 
“Oversupply,  high  prices  and 
problems  with  newly  floated 
stock  trading  below  offer  price 
created  nervousness  in  the 
markets  in  late  1994.  and  may 
have  tempered  some  of  this 
growth.” 

In  the  face  of  such  a  future, 
however,  the  more  far-sighted 
merchant  banks  have  turned 


their  attention  to  managing 
other  people's  money:  a  pre¬ 
serve  more  generally  associat¬ 
ed  with  the  traditional  fund 
management  institutions  and 
life  companies. 

Tom  Cross  Brown,  chief 
executive  of  Lazard  Investors, 
part  of  Lazard  Brothers,  says 
that  although  his  part  of  the 
Lazard  empire  is  “still  very 
much  under  the  umbrella  of  a 
merchant  bank”  it  is  the 
intention  that  it  will  become 
increasingly  important  as  a 
profir  centre  for  the  parent. 

Traditionally.  Lazard  has 
preferred  its  private  clients  to 
have  at  least  £1  million.  That  is 
no  longer  the  case.  Mr  Cross 
Brown  says:  “We  are  much 
more  flexible  nowadays  and  a 
figure  of  £700.000  is  perfectly 
adequate.  On  the  one  hand 
asset  management  is  about 
looking  after  institutional 
money  on  behalf  of  pension 
funds  and  charities  and  that  is 
a  very  competitive  market  On 
the  other,  it  is  managing  die 
financial  affairs  of  private 
clients,  which  indudes  estate 
and  inheritance  planning  just 
as  much  as  It  does  making 
sure  that  die  person  has  made 
proper  pension  provision." 

Robert  Miller 


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There  is  one  way  to  help  enhance  the  performance  of 
your  money  -  choose  an  informed  professional  to  assist  you. 

Through  Lloyds  Private  Banking  your  personal  financial 
affairs  are  coordinated  for  you  by  a  skilled  personal  adviser. 
Someone  with  market  intelligence  to  shape  an  investment 
straregy  with  you  to  ensure  your  money  is  working  hard. 

He  or  she  can  provide  a  comprehensive  range  of  services, 
tailoring  each  to  meet  your  financial  goals.  From  investments 
to  taxation  and  estate  planning,  together  you’ll  agree  your 
objectives.  Then  your  private  banker  will  help  you  achieve 
them  with  on-going  independent  advice,  reassuring  discretion 
and  specialist  expertise. 

Lloyds  Private  Banking  is  one  of  Britain’s  leading  private 
banks,  managing  or  administering  almost  £6  billion  of  clients’ 
assets.  We  have  3 1  exclusive  offices  around  the  country.  An 
initial  consultation  costs  nothing,  so  why  not  find  our  more? 

Contact:  David  Terry, 

Lloyds  Private  Banking  Limited, 

1-5  Perrymount  Road,  Haywards  Heath, 

West  Sussex  RH16  3SP. 

Telephone:  (01444)  41S169. 


And  get  great 
advisers.” 


PRIVATE  BANKING 


Lloyds  Private  Banking  offices  are  in  England  and  Wales: 

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£15,000  ♦  benefits 
Do  you  have  a  passion  for  Art  and 
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standard?  Fabulous  opportunity  to 
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AROUND  THE 
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£16,000  -  Cl 7,000+  benefits 
No  shorthand,  loads  of  admin. 
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BREWERS  ARID  LICENSED  RETAILEBS  ASSOCIATION 

International  Assistant 

(Temporary) 

The  BLRA  wishes  to  appoint  3  Temporaty  International  Assistant,  to  cany 
out  the  functions  of  the  International  Assistant  during  her  maternity  leave.; 
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month  for  six/seven  months  minimum. 

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Executive  Search 

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£16/£1 7,000 


This  forward  thinking  dynamic  company  are 
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is  fast  with  a  sales/trading  floor  atmosphere.  The 
successful  candidate  must  be  wen  presented,  cool 
under  pressure  and  thrive  In  a  demanding  and 
varied  role.  A  solid  work  background  and  flexible 
approach  essential.  60  wpm  typing. 


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0171  831  9999 

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jobs  vary  from  Team  secretary  to  Director's  PA 
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you  are  wed  presented  with  a  fively,  positive 
personality  and  strong  audio  sfdBs  (rrtn  55  wpm 
and  Word  for  Windows)  you  will  fit  tn  wefl  with  this 
sociable  bunch. 


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0171  831  9999 

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PERSONAL  ASSISTANT 
TO  SENIOR  DIRECTOR 

To  £25,000  +FuII  Benefits 


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A  major  International  Bank  established  in  the  City  of 
London  with  a  commitment  to  continued  expansion  m 
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who  is  camfinith  worMnQ  with  dwBifl  raygnbM  PR 
industry  is  nssdsd n asabc  now CEO.  Wornig  Vongeb 
him  at  gl  tevofe  you  vrii  attend  msutinas  and  organise 
•wytNng.  CarnmrtrtMrt,  80/60  sfc9s  ana  a  strong  work 
back^owd  g*R  «p  useful  but  vwxid  look  at  other  m|. 
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rata.  AwiHlg  ttw  Chskman  whfi  ttw  muntoaiton  of  high 
tows!  ^mipiJujb  rrwaflngs  and  Bnattg  personal  matters 
charm  and  tfacrrtlon  wfl  be  of  the  utmost  importance. 
80/60  BldlB 

PR  MVOLVEMNT  £18,000 

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prepard  to  involvs  you  In  every  aspect  trf  her  PR  work 
(even  hotpmg  write  PR  rahianwa)  you  wl  find  afl  yov 
nitiative  vrii  oa  used.  Marty  yoo  w8  hew  aome  knowladga 
of  the  industry  and  be  abbto  wariest  a  fast  poos.  fiOtyp. 


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PROPERTY  -  j£l7^00  -  Upmarket  prapeny 
company  in  Wl  is  looking  for  experienced  PA  tn  join 
small  busy  learn 

REC/SEC  ■  jC 14,000  -  Prcstigioascois  looking  for  a 

smart  rcc/scc  capable  of  handling  numerous  tanka  and 
overflow  typing.  (4S+  wpm).  Good  telephone  manner  ess. 

PUTNEY  -  £14,000  -  Growing  co  is  looking  for 

Sales  Administrator,  applicants  must  be  organised,  touch 
typists  (40+  wpm)  and  good  commankmors. 
PUBLISHING  -  REC/SEC  -  £10,500  -  young 
college  leaver  needed  for  busy  WE  office  -  40+  wpm 
typing. 

GROSVENOR  BUREAU  RECRUfTMENT 

TEL:  07 1  499  6566  CONSULTANTS 


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abSty  to  work  under  pnasuro.  Idaafty  you  vrii  ba  in  yow 
lata  20's  to  30*a. 


spariencod  senior  racaptiorkst  wnh  poba  wid  style 
adad  by  large  kwwnational  Adwrosrtg  Agency  to 
the  receptionist  team  and  manage  the  system. 


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The  Candidate 

Will  have  a  track  record  with  one  to  one  rolefs)  within  a 
Banking  envtronmenL 

Will  have  immense  initiative  and  be  able  to  utilise  this 
in  organising  screening  and  supporting. 

Will  be  able  to  cope  with  a  high  pressure  environment 
where  the  hours  will  be  as  required. 

Should  be  aged  29  or  over. 


Hie  Position 

wm  confer  immediate  responsibility  and  offer  a 
tremendous  challenge  to  any  PJL  presently  feeling  stale 
in  their  present  role. 


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As  s  retained,  sale  agency  for  this  position  afl  applications 
shookl  be  made  to  Colin  WQson.  Managing  Director,  EHW, 
on  (071)  606  1400.  Fax:  (07)  606  1410.  Royex  House. 
AUermanbory  Square,  Loodcm  EC2V 


RESEARCH  SECRETARY  -  CAPITAL  MARKETS  £19,500  +  BANK  PKGE . 

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CITY  SKCRETARIAX,  SPKCTAUSTS: 
INVESTMENT  BANKING  ft  LLOYDS  BROKING 
M  i  .n  mi  fir  in.T  iii  iimrTTTT  071 488  9922 


SHEILA  CHILDS  RECRUITMENT 


£21,000 


A  job  for  foe  aon-hearted  -  absolute  invotvemeni  at  ttw 
very  heart  of  a  PLC  which  has  been  one  of  tha  major 
successes  of  aw  last  decade.  Your  business  apttuds  and 
Instinctive  reactions  enable  you  to  turn  your  hand  to  a 
daran  tasks  sfrnuttsnBousfy.  Computer  Stsrate  with  flrst- 
dass  secretarial  Ms  you  are  justmabty  proud  of  your 
achievements  and  stilt  eager  in  grow.  Age  2540. 


PA.  TO  THE  HEAD  OF  LT. 

£18,000  -  £20,000  +  Bank  Benefits 

Predominantly  an  ulnuniRrstivc  support  role  within  a 
top  isvanoat  bank’s  IT  department.  Yon  trill  need 
exceptionally  strong  organisation  dtilb  to  monitor 
projects  and  take  responaflmty  for  fanning  this  way  busy 
department.  IdeaDy  a  graduate  secretary  with  an  interest 
in  systems.  Sense  of  hmnour  and  a  professional  attitude 
essential]  Call  Em2r  Akfakb  an  0171  588  8999.  Hot 
c.vj  <m  0171  8998 


■Aldrich  -  Recruitment  Consultants 


NEWS  INTERNATIONAL 
NEWSPAPERS  LTD 


SECRETARY  TO  DIRECTOR 
OF  INFORMATION 
TECHNOLOGY 

SALARY  ACCORDING  TO  AGE  AND  EXPERIENCE 
HOURS:  MONDAY  TO  FRIDAY  10  AM  TO  6  PM 


We  are  seeking  to  recruit  a  secretary  with  excellent  audio  and  word 
processing  skills  (WordPerfect  for  Windows  and  Lotus  123)  to  work  for  the 
Director  of  Information  Technology. 


Excellent  standard  of  English,  the  ability  to  prioritise  work  in  a  pressurised 
environment  together  with  good  interpersonal  drill*  are  essential 
requirements  for  this  position. 


Applications  in  writing  enclosing  CV  together  with  daytime  telephone 


number  to  Brenda  Hemmings,  Personnel  Executive,  News  International 
Newspapers  Limited,  PO  Box  481  Virginia  Street,  London  El  9D. 


First  Class 
Secretary 

utth  PA  agMifflons  reqvred 


busy  MD.  Excrfem  wganfcttra) 
l  WP  skHb.  vrtl  be  wvolwd  «i  all 


rtprats  at  the  busness. 

LSBdoa  Bridge  -  Sal  £16,506 
Canted  Asdrea  6ol 
Id  871  378  8686  or 
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THE  TIMES 

1995  SURVEY  OF  LONDON 
SECRETARIAL  SALARIES 


Tlie  seventh  urmu;il  :*urvey  of  UmJnn  PA  Secretary  syUirie*>  and 
cmplovmeni  «.nniliti«»ns.  implied  hy  GorJon  Yates  in  conjunc¬ 
tion  wiili  Tlw  Timo.  h*  nmv  .tvailahle. 

Baseil  i m  questionnaires  completed  hy  i-Ri  enmpanies  employing 
over  lO.lHXl  setTeturies  .mil  PAs.  dils  i ear's  sun  ey  offen*  detailed 
insight  into  the  changes,  i  rends  and  developments  a  {Veiling 
secretarial  salaries,  benefits  and  employment  in  London. 

The  sunev  repon  runs  t«»  twenty  pjges  of  statistical  analysis 
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different  categories  of  business  r>  pe. 

Tli is  publication  is  freely  available  tn  anyone  with  responsibility 
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Gordon  -Yates 


;  rWc»fciiul  bvcruunal  Recroimwnt : 


EXECUTIVE  SECRETARY  £22K 

A  major  educational  charRy  needsan  Executive 
SecretatypruficfontinV1tofdtorWindows,twilh 

90  wpm  s/h  and  65  wpm  typing. 

This  demanding  role,  supported  by  a  secretay, 
involves  a  greaS  deal  of  cordkfential  work  ami 
budgetary  responsibility. 

Applicants  should  sand  a  CV  by  1st  March  to 
Beverley  East,  Execucare  Secretarial 
Recruitment,  Collier  House,  163-169 
Brampton  Road,  London  SW3 1PY 

EXECUTIVE  SECRETARY 

for  the  SENIOR  PARTNER  of  West  End  Law 
Firm  with  multiple  interests. 

MUST  HAVE  LEGAL 
EXPERIENCE 

The  job  is  of  an  extremely  interesting  and 
varied  nature. 

Applicants  must  be  mature,  intelligent, 
flexible,  independent  able  to  use  initiative  and 
cope  under  pressure. 

Accuracy  and  good  sense  of  humour  essential 
Usual  secretarial  skills,  good  telephone 
manner  and  WP.5.1. 

Salary  not  less  than  £22,000 
Send  fill]  c.v.  in  first  instance  to: 

Fax  Number  0171  580  8382. 


INFORMATION  SECRETARY 

The  raarkrtrio  cuH£iany  representing  the  St  luria  Tourist 
Board  h  the  and  traund  is  looking  for  a  bright  person  with 

a  thorough  knowteto  of  St  Lnoa  as  atoorist  destination,  A 
least  two  years  office  experience  and  onaon  educational 
medications  of  Higher  National  CertiffcatB/Dplaraa  or 
equivalent  level  preferably  in  tourism  or  badness. 
Appficanti  shodd  be  coatpater  Berate  in  both  word 
processing  and  databases,  with  axodhnt  Engtah  and  a  good 
telephone  manner.  Otter  reqwranents  are  good  organisational 
sfidls.  fast  end  accurate  typing  and  the  afaEty  to  work  wel 
under  pressore. 

Plus*  samd  CV*  ta  Onaamdi  Cato  Wine,  Axis 
Safe*  ft  Mariratfeg  14  421*  Why  Read,  Lradeo 
HW3  GHJ 


THE  FOOTBALL 
ASSOCIATION 


SECRETARY/ PA 


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Deputy  Chief  Executive 


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Secretary/  PA  support  to  our  Deputy  Chief  Executive. 

level  of 


The  role  will  be  a  demanding  out;  requiring  a 
commitmcuL  cuthcsi8SiD,  sdfraotrvatkm  and 
supported  by  a  caperity  for  hard-  wiriL 


Educated  to  at  least  A-Levd  standard  (or  equivalent),  the 
ideal  candidate  wfll  have  a  proven  wide  raage  of 


scoetarial  skills  (it  _  _ ... 

enhanced  by  at  least  five  year*  experience  as  a  senior 

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pre&ned.  Age  23+.  OS  Debbie. 

HAfSETINfi  -  WC1  £14jO0O  + 

An  artapraWe  raieaa  is  required  by  the 
Hwprtnr  (£  thfc  fwwiow  tr^  WtMtdttiOKL  *A*  Lnd  V 
giikdiBtc  calibre  with  m  o^dted  i^ooctzvc 
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dqamoL  SO  wpm  iypn^  Ap  22 +.  Od  Rirind 

COMMUNICATIONS  SW1  £16^80  +  BOS 

Tbit  Mac-dzzp  it*  Apcndy  hoBo|  far  i 

PA/AdmmisaBSor  to  work  with  their  Pabfic  Afiknx  team. 
A  wicA  Uay  rote- it  dcmandi  tact,  cffiocncyaudagyatt 

24-35.  Ring  Ln 

TEMPS/TBIIVS/1EMPS  b  £WJB  pbr 


Bee  X-tranuag  on  ken  WP  pudagra  OH  Joeie. 

Telephone:  0171  831  8936 
6171  430  9111 


PA  to  Chief  Executive 

c.  £20,000  City 

ATC  is  the  leading  international  financial 
training  organisation,  and  is  looking  to  recruit 
a  PA  to  work  with  their  Chief  Executive. 

You  should  have  a  proven  track  record  of 
at  least  4  years’  one-to-one  experience.  The 
work  is  demanding;  you  need  to  be  highly 
organised,  have  fast  accurate  typing  (Word 
6.0)  and  enjoy  a  high  profile  position 
where  confidentiality  is  essential. 

Please  telephone  Julie 
Colley  on  0171-634  1057 
by  I  March  1995  for  an  •  .  '=^r 

application  form.  No 
agencies  please.  ATC 


SECRETARY  P/A 

Snail  communications  consultancy  in  SW1  requires  secretary 
to  manage  the  office  and  two  fcectors.  No  9-5  era.  We  need 
commitment  a  sense  of  tumour  and  a  good  telephone 
reanwr.  Must  be  experienced  in  Word  for  Windows,  Excel  and 
PowerPoint  Salary  £16,000. 

Reply  with  CV  to  Jaw  Adnu  c/a  Beaufort  19 
Unrkinglunu  Rate ,loadau,  SW1E  BIB. 

Fax  0171  233  5570 


SAILING  SECRETARY 

The  International  Yacht  Racing  Union  (IYRU) 
the  governing  body  for  sailing,  is  seeking  a 
junior  secretary  to  support  the  Events  team. 
Applicants  should  have  a  good  standard  of 
education,  be  enthusiastic  and  willing  to 
tackle  a  variety  of  tasks.  A  knowledge  of  and 
interest  in  sailing  would  be  advantageous 

Please  write  "‘r“= -  — 

salary  tc 
Broadwall, 


OFFICE  MANAGER 
North  Kensington,  W10 

Warned  for  small,  lively,  entrepreneurial  company 
selling  environmen tatty  friendly  office  products.  The 
job  involves  running  a  busy  office  of  four  people. 
controSng  a  team  Of  6  drivers /engineers,  organising 
the  company,  solving  all  sons  of  proMems  and 
(prameeing  a  100*  level  of  efficiency.  Lots  of 
responsibility,  ideally  you  should  be  25+  with  bright 
outgoing  personality,  lots  of  enthusiasm  and  be 
computer/WP  Bterate.  Could  suh  ex-senior  secretary 
seeking  a  challenge.  Must  be  N/S. 

Salary  drea  £17,000  -  £18,000 
Please  send  CV  to  MD,  Laser  Life,  21  Grand 
Union  Centre,  West  Row,  London,  W10  5AX 


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Angela  Mortimer 


Dynamic  PA  f2i5K 

Ore  of  the  world's  leading  names  in  head-hunting  is 
currently  seeking  a  first-class,  experienced  PA  to  work  in 
their  London  office.  .This  is  an  amazing  opportunity  far 
someone  efficient  and  dedicated,  who  enjoys  their  work. 
Duties  will  be  challenging  and  traned  including  lots  of 
client  and  candidate  liaison.  Typing  SOwpm.  3  years 
secretarial  experience  essential. 

The  Italian  Influence  £19K+ benefits 

What  an  opportuniiyi  If  you  are  fluent  in  Italian,  are 
hungry  for  a  challenge  and  want  to  wort  m  a  sociable 
and  international  US  legal  corporation,  we  have  the  jab 
for  you)  Our  client  is  seeking  a  "one  in  a  milfion* 
secretary  to  work  for  one  of  thee  senior  executives.  The 
role  is  involving  and  varied  with  duties  including  lots  of 
client  liaison  and  lengthy  report  compilation.  Shorthand 
DOwpm  and  typing  SOwpm  are  essential.  Computer 
literacy  desirable  Great  benefits. 

First  Class,  First  Jobber!  £i« 

Can  you  aRord  to  ignore  this  absolutely  unmissable  oppor¬ 
tunity  to  launch  yourself  into  the  world  of  wort?  A  lop 
West  End  property  agency  is  looking  for  a  bright,  enthus¬ 
iastic  and  committed  secretary.  Briiiiam  rote  for  a  bright 
graduate/coUege  leaver  wanting  a  fid  secretanaVsuppwt 
rote  with  true  involvement  guaranteed.  Typing  GOwpm. 


Two  Key  Roles  in  the  Oil  Industry 

LASMO  pic  is  row  of  the  largest  independent  oil  and  gas  exploration  and  production  companies  in  the  UK. 
With  operations  m  eight  countries,  our  UK  headquarters  are  based  in  prestigious  mroiem  oitkes  close  10 
Ljverpm.il  Srreet  Stamm. 

Wr  are  Ixdung  h*r  iui»  exceptional  people  tofotn  our  team. 

ADMINISTRATIVE  ASSISTANT  -  PERSONNEL 

Wirlcing  direerh  for  the  Mnnaj-yrt  FWrsonnd  and  Adminisrra rion .  you  will  pnrnde  administrative  ami  secretarial 
support  covering  nil  aspects  1  it  Personnel  Sell -assured  and  with  excellent  rtEanisabureil  dtilk  vuu  should  he  aNe  to 
work  ru  a  high  level  tn  a  pressurised  environment.  Adminisrnmve  duties  include  organising  training  courses, 
reowring  renipurarv  sufl,’  dealing  with  unsolicited  letters  and  maintaining  accurate  and  up  to  dare  personnel  fits. 

Thu  kev  piwtrion  requires  a  flexible  arvi  adaptable  approach  therefore  w  are  looking  for  an  outgoing,  thendk 
fXrrstm  wh>  ■  b  ahle  to  liaise  cunfiJentlv  with  staff' at  ail  levels.  Previous  personnel  experience  is  esscnri.iL 

TECHNICAL  ASSISTANTySECRETARY  -  FINANCE 

This  position  requites  an  experienced  Technical  AsMStant/Secreiaxy  to  provide  secretarial,  accounts  and  rey^m 
prepnratHin  support  ro  rhe  finance  Group.  The  workioaj  is  heavy  and  there  are  often  right  deadlines  to  he  nwi. 
Excellent  technical  word  processing  skills  .is  well  as  the  ability  to  prepare  financial  reports  is  essential. 
A  haste  understanding  of  account*  and  an  aptitude  Lir  figures  is  desirable. 

B«»th  positions  require  good  working  knowledge  ot'  VKmJ  6  and  Excel.  The  latter  pxmriirn  also  needs 
experience  1  't  WwJfYrt'ecr  5. 1. 

In  additivm  ro  a  iirsr  class  salary.  Iwnefics  include  non- omtnhiKo r\  pension,  life  assurance,  subsidised 
BUPA IFSTL  and  subsidised  Health  Qub. 

Pltase  send  your  CV,  together  with  salary  expectations,  to  Sue  Simmons,  LASMO  pic, 
100  Liverpool  Street,  London  EC2M  2BB.  STRICTLY  NO  AGENCIES 


Off-Piste 

Temping 


There  are  3  ways  10  temp  and  3  types  of  agencies. 

1  The  Soft  Option  -  the  green  and  blue  slopes  of 
temping.  Predictable,  minimum  effort  but  also 
minimum  reward. 

2  Middle  of  the  Road  -  the  ted  and  black  slopes. 
It's  OK  but  will  dune  be  anyone  there  to  help 
pick  up  die  pieces  if  you  take  a  ramble? 

3  Off-Piste  -  a  real  challenge  with  maximum 
exaiemem  and  reward.  The  elite  with  your  mm 
guide  on  hand  to  bdp  you  make  the  most  of 
every  run. 

If  you  have  EXTREME  confidence  in  your 
secretarial  skills  and  fed  ready  for  the  off-piste 
challenge  you  should  be  talking  to  us.  Call  oar 
experienced  guides  bow  and  (tan  praying  for 
mow!  8171  398  7000 


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c.£21,000  plus  benefits 

Wr  have  an  exciting  opportunity  for  an  experienced 
secretary  to  join  a  successful  firm  of  Fund  Managers 
based  in  ihe  Ciry.  Your  role  will  encompass  the 
prevision  of  secretarial  support  to  3  director, 
preparing  presentation  reports,  booking  travel 
arrangements  and  organising  itineraries.  There  is 
masses  of  potential  to  get  involved  on  the  diem  tide 
and  with  time  your  reaponribflidci  will  increase. 
We  are  looking  for  someone  who  is  ambitious  and 
has  over  three  years  secretarial  experience  gained 
within  ■  financial  institution.  Age  23.35.  sun* 
50wpm/  WP /  Spreadsheets.  Flew  cafi  CUre 
Ashley  m  0171  398  7880 


Marketing 
Secretary  - 
Banking 
to  £18,500  &  big  bens 

Do  you  have  90  wpm  shorthand,  a  A-™**..  ww 
spirited  attitude  and  an  interest  in  muifcniny  fo 
the  City*  If  the  answer  is  “yes",  this  could  be 
your  perfect  Job!  Our  djem,  a  leading  Investment 
Management  company  requires  a  proactive  rod 
efficient  sccreuny  10  support  a  Managing 
Director  and  four  executive*,  one  of  whom  is 
bused  in  Geneva.  Duties  will  indode  arranging 
travel  and  lunches,  dealing  with  «-piw| 
preparing  presentations  and  holding  the  fort  in 
your  boss’s  absence.  You  will  need  fkn  typing  and 
a  good  knowledge  of  Microsoft  Wont  for 
Windows  and  be  aged  24-35.  Please  call  Vanem 
Mitdutfl  on  0171  390  7800 


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An  Escape  From  The  City- 

Grca  £20,000 

u.  a  law  yBnrs  ago  a  bright  Otystv  left  the  dark  maze 
of  streets  m  the  dip  for  the  bright  Ights  A  bash  air  of 
the  west  End  and  set  up  his  own  my  successful 
company  in  the  heart  of  Wl.  He  took  not  only  his 
valuable  cay  financial  experience  but  hto  then  very 
valuable  Secretary  with  him  to  train  as  a  Find 
Manager.  Today,  soma  years  on,  they  have  a  tatadous 
CSent  let  beautiful  offices  and  a  wondarftd  future 
plumed.  We  are  now  looking  ter  another  City  fugitive 
who  yearns  for  the  chance  to  work  for  a  smell,  ufrra- 
qmart,  Wtest  End  contpany  who  can  ofiar  superb  long¬ 
term  prospects.  So  if  you  have  80  wpm  typing  and  are 
between  24  &  30.  probably  fadop  wkh  large  company 
bureaucracy  but  not  wfth  the  financial  business,  .why 
not  use  your  City  expertise?  It’s  your  ticket  out  of  the 
City  and  eventualy  out  of  secretarial. 

18-21  Jermya  Street,  Lendna  SW1Y  fiHP 
Telephone  6171  734  7341 


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Maine -Tucker 

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THE  SECRET  GARDEN 

£16-17,000  +  9.30  start  +  Parking 
Space  (or  very  easy  bns/tnbe 
access)  +  extra  Hols  +  LV*s  +++ 

-drive  to  wok  this  Spring^  in  the  heart  of 
Kensington,  amidst  beautiful  flowers,  toasting  yet 
another  suocesaftd  sale  of  an  "eBa"  house,  working 
alongside  fife  lovely  Negotiator  Bfe  wfl  be  a  joy_and 
your  future  sunny.  Bacuae,  whether  your  sigfds  are 
set  on  negotiafrig  or  just  a  reaky  fun  “PA"  job.  Ns 
exciting  sprouting  company  offers  you  opportunity  at 
every  turn.  You  must  know  Microsoft  Word  for 
Windows  (50wpm)  because  they  dontUbut  don't 
worry,  the  job  is  never  more  than  50%  secretarial  (&  no 
shorthand)  &  it  to  your  amazing  way  with  CSentsand 
your  sumy  outiook  that  wB  wii  you  this  prize!  Are  you 
20  to  25?  Cafi  us  -  it  couM  be  you  In  the  secret  garden. 

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Astistant  (late  20Ce)  who  can  take  control  of  sBuflons  in 
their  absence-  a  fast-paced  star  they  can  Hurt.  The  |ob  la 
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benefit  o(  56  typing  (Presentation  standards  please)  -but 
the  other  60%  b  afl  CSert  AtMnbtrefion  and  vital 
fascinating  confidential  work  of  the  kkid  only  kxard  at  tha 
rack  fan  at  toa  Design  world.  Your  tatantfor  onUdpafing  toe 
next  mne  b  refied  upon  hare.  H  you  are  a  conanaromr- 
mrided  protettional  who  te  most  at  home  at  tha  centre  or a 
creative  world  and  you  can  demonsbata  sedreotivation. 
presence,  style  and  mege-orgonteation  takmta^  and  that 
you  are  in  feet  a  reel  "aKroundar"  right  hand  -  phase  cal 
us.  you-  creative  approach  b  needed  here. 

18-21  Jennyn  Street;  London  SW1Y  fiHP 
Tdepbcw  871 734  7341 


BASINGSTOKE 
DO  YOU  DESERVE  A  PLACE  IN 
THE  BOARDROOM? 
c£l7,OOQ  +  MED  +  5 lh  WKS 
HOLS 

This  countryside  company  can  rival  any  major  UK 
company  any  deyl  Because  they've  earned  thamsehes  a 
top  place  in  toe  oommerdal  business  world,  they're  very 
precise  about  the  people  who  work  for  them.  Senior  PAs 
hare  have  to  have  hp>  expectations  about  where  they 
warn  to  work.  They  should  warn  a  busy  wwironrnent 
(because  toey're  used  to  pressure),  they  should  war*  dent 
contact  (because  they  are  confident)  they  should 
understand  S  accept  the  pressure  their  Director  is  raider 
(hoMium  they  expect  to  work  ter  someone  who  ta  wefl 
re&pecied  for  whar  ttwy  de*  We  expect  you  knew  el  ot 
this  A  want  this  tool  interested,  tf  you  have  60wpm.  aged 
24+  virtto  senior  level  experience.  &  went  to  work  in 
beautiM  offices  wkh  Reminded  people,  please  cal. 

18-21  Jennyn  Street,  Leaden  SWlY  fiHP 
Telephone  0171  734  7341 


[PERSONNEL  ASSISTANT 

An  international  firm  of  chartered  surveyors  seeks 
an  enthusiastic  and  motivated  person  ro  work  in  iis 
Personnel  Department.  The  department  provides 
core  support  services  and  the  role  demands  an 
ability  to  cope  with  constantly  changing  priori tes 
and  to  deal  at  all  levels  throughout  the  Firm. 

The  job  comprises  administrative  and  secretarial 
support  with  responsibility  for  the  management  of 
temporary  staff,  control  of  budgets,  etc. 

The  right  person  wiU  be  well  educated  with  sound 
administrative  and  secretarial  experience. 

Good  computer  literacy  is  essential  with  speeds  of 
50+  wpm.  Windows  or  WordPerfect  experience 
preferable  although  training  will  be  provided. 
Please  send  your  CV  and  covering  letter,  stating 
salary  requirements,  to  Geraldine  Baylis, 
Recruitment  Officer,  Weatherall  Green  &  Smith, 
22  Chancery  Lane,  London  WC2A  1LT 


BUILD  YOUR  FUTURE 
A  PA  is  needed  for  the  senior  partner  of  a  city 
practice  specialising  in  construction  and 
entaneering  law.  He  is  looking  for  a  confident 
nfnd  weH  organised  individual  wdi  good 
litigation/commerciai  experience.  PR  skills 
also  required,  ujettosr  wth  60wpm  and 

Salary  offered:  Market  R^e  -  Interested? 

PLEASE  SEND  YOUR  CV  TO; 
JO-ANNA  JOSEPH 

FREEDMAN  CHURCH,  2i  WHITEFRIARS 
STREET,  LONDON  EC4  8JJ. 

(no  telephone  calls) 


Eager  Beaver  -  School/ 
College  Leaver 
No  Experience  Needed! 
£10-11,000  +  9.30  Start 
+  5  Weeks  Hols  ++ 

_Jfw  only  technical  gU  you  need  tor  tote  apart)  flrstjab  to 
some  aeciran  typing  (40  wpm+):  aside  from  tftb  you  wflf  need 
iota  of  entousiasni  because  there  b  tots  tor  you  to  do  &  leant 
n  fob  exciting  Wl  company.  Youl  be  acounng  foe  papers  » 
cut  out  press  cuttings-  Youl  be  sorting  out  the  ahowreef 
torery-.  route  be  traned  to  input  htyi  prow  people's  detsas 
on  to  a  computer,  intact  you!  besobisyln  thb  tast™v*io 
ortca  your  feat  Just  want  touch  tha  ground.  So  B  you  are  in 
your  lav  teens,  and  a  real  Eager  Beaver,  please  cat  us  about 
thte  wonderful  appourty. 

18-21  Jeraryn  Street,  London  SW1Y  fiHP 
Telephone  0171  734  7341 


PA  -  AGED  25-35 
Name  your  salary  - 
preferably  above  £23,000 

Is  there  anybody  out  there  who  is  London  based,  a 
non-smoker,  preferably  a  Capricorn  or  Libra,  a  top 
Secretary/  PA  and  who  wants  to  work  as  a  member 
of  a  small,  happy  team  in  the  Holbom  Circus  area? 
1  need  somebody  educated  to  A’level  standard. 

Other  essential  requirements  are  numeracy, 
trustworthiness,  a  pleasant  manner,  well  spoken 
with  Pitman  S/H  lOOwpm. 

Ring  0171  404  3111 

NO  AGENC1E5 


Aasoeudes 


PKG  £40,000 

This  is  a  HIGH  RANKING  rtoflcngnt  Exec  PA  positioa  fora 
tructy  PA  vriih  Style.  Good  Sec  nails  with 

Shorthand  Dec. 

PHONE  TODAY  FOR  AN  IMMEDIATE  INTERVIEW 
ON  071  374  2921. 

5  London  WaB  abtlsp.  FiartT  Own,  ECZM  5NT 

PERSONAL  ASSISTANT  TO  A 
GENTLEMAN! 

Slough  area  (car  ess)  e£  13,000  pies  exc  tens 

It  is  our  pleasure  to  be  recntmng  the  PA  to  the  MD  of  this 
fDfwad-thrrdting  and  hugely  successful  organisation.  Tte  MD 
is  a  most  dranrang  and  highly  respected  man  with  the  bast 
standards  of  professianafctm  who  wiJI  view  his  PA  as  a 
'business  partner'.  Your  time  management  skills  mil 
complement  his  and  your  SH  sec  skills  will  be  axceHent. 
Handle  your  wn  correspondence,  exchange  ideas  and  prepare 
him  for  the  many  meetings  and  seminars  he  attends. 

CaB  Maria-Tlarase  Feelay  no  0171  831  0666 

DRAKE  INTERNATIONAL  (Rec  Cons) 


HOME  FROM  HOME 

£16,000 

— Jb  probably  ttw  ben  way  to  describe  fob  proteaelnna  St 

James's  company,  m  a  emal  rtedextert  team  of  proMnianeb 
boMng  lor  a  person  who  can  look  altar  tv*  correspondenoe. 
nnp  out  nth  semtearo  A  genenfe  nai  the  office  acftnfei,  tee  they 
would  rur  tortr  reme,  happiy  8  vrtth  pride.  The  typing  b  wry 
very  mrtmsri,  tu  yoiril  need  ttapm  AWndovo.  Hyoirme 
returner  to  work  or  aged  up  to  4S,  fob  wexid  be  Mete. 

18-21  Jennyn  Street,  f.axtnn  SW1Y  fiHP 
Tdepbone  0171  734  7341 


ROYAL  GEOGRAPHICAL  SOCIETY 
(WITH  THE  INSTITini  OF  BRITISH  GEOGRAPHERS) 

PERSONAL  ASSISTANT  TO  THE  DIRECTOR 

Interesting  work  on  geography  and  enwonmesL  Agreeable 
surrounding  in  Central  London.  Plenty  of  mric  and  need  for 
Kutistive.  secretarial  sUls,  experience  in  committee 
administration  and  imnulB  taking. 

Salary  range;  £13.250  -  £14,800 
Apply  mth  CV  hr. 

Tha  Director,  Royal  Geographical  Society. 

(with  Iha  Institute  nf  British  Gaepnhan), 
Kflnoagtpn  Gone,  London,  SW7  2AR. 

Fax  071  225  1425. 


THREE  VACANCIES  IN 
Wf  MODEL  AGENCY 

A)  Booker  required  to  work  in  Modal  Agency.  Canfidates 
should  have  at  bast  two  years  experience  aid  exceflant 
cormnmication  dolls.  Prior  knowledge  of  the  fashion  industry 
is  essential. 


B)  Experienced  main  floor  Receptionist  with  typing  skfilt. 
Q  Qualified  Secretary  reamed.  Applicants  should  have  a  good 
standard  of  education  and  be  computer  Iterate. 

For  the  above  positions,  phase  send  ymo  onreoft  CV  tsc 

lasMon  and  Madia  Management  Ltd 
47/48  Mow  Bond  Stent 
London  Wl  Y  9HA 


SENIOR  SECRETARY 

PA.  to  Managing  Director  required  to  work  for  a  family 
company  specialising  in  the  supply  of  high  quality  playing 
cards,  games  and  hooka  to  the  retail  trade-  The  writable 
candidate  must  be  able  to  take  shorthand  end  be  familiar 
with  Words  for  Windows  Miicroaoft  3.1,  Mjooaoft  XL  and 
Microsoft  Power  Point  The  poettimi  a  a  challenging  and 
varied  one.  Some  experience  in  buying  would  be  an 
advantage.  Competitive  salary.  i 

Please  write  with  curriculum  vitae  to  ,4^ 
David  Weatocdge,  David  Weetnedge  XjBeL 
Ltd.,  5  Ferrier  Street,  London,  8W18  |ggBB| 


PA  TO  CEO 
c£22£00  pa 

Mealy  PA/accctnM  poriflon 
•Nta  aaton.  H)Uk 
reouitaaur  who  cans  a  a%h 
pmfifc  rate  CEO  at  writ  tom 
it  ciupsqr  ate  aaaaj 
I***1*"*'"-1  with  uno  oantaa 
retomt  i  i|X  lifjifg  to  wnen  to 
era  tefotaa f  8Q/60  teflh. 
wtatow*  +  urahifi.  to  V  * 

CLIENT 

DEVELOPMENT  PA 
to  £18^00 

Lea  of  dknt  hreyinniy  to 
■war  in  dm  wtied  wrnHiial 
role.  CEent  Dcrglotanmi  Pam or 
ante  ranfifcta  otyautot  itek 
mg  aamiaaiitartra  tefib 
ntapcea  m  ittdop  role.  55  win 
aodio  ft  WP.  A ce  30+ 

PJease  call  071  «7  3212 


19-23  yr  old  Secs 
£16K  +  exc  bens 
Imawadnp  ft  way  wariad 
rola  attMnp  young 
dynaanic  team  in  fun  4 
aocW  otwawv  Bans  Inc 
paid  o/tima.  free  blast 

V*i  Wad*  Rac  Cooa 

0714373793 


EXPORT  CO 

WANTED 

Dynamic,  matnregp- 
eeiicrio  help  MD  keep 
ahead  of  the  rest.  Export 


Career  Expansion 

c£2 1,000  +  Bonus 

Rapidly  expanding  Corporate  Finance 
Boutique  seeks  a  firn-dass  secretary/assisam 
who  is  looking  for  s  genuine  career  opportunity 
in  the  City-  Providing  full  secretarial  support  to 
the  MD  and  his  team  you  will  have  to  juggle  a 
variety  of  responsibilities  from  nw»wi| 
projects,  dknt  liaison,  organising  in-home 
lunches  and  entertainment  to  busy  and  ever 
changing  diaries.  Initially  the  secretarial 
content  may  be  high  but  for  someone  who  is 
fully  eommited,  wants  to  be  the  main  lynch -pin 
in  a  challenging  environment  die  prospects  are 
unlimited.  Financial  experience  prefermi  i«r 
a  good  understanding  ofWPfc  Age  25-35.  Skills 
fiO/nnty  shorthand.  Please  caB  Annie 
Hnstnn  hranwBatdy  on  0171  399  7000 

Crone  Coitill 

mmmam  ncMumaiTocmiiuANn  mmmmm 


PA/ 

SECRETARY 

A  confident,  well 
organised  senior 
secretary  is  required  for 
a  busy  private  property 
&  budding  company.  An 
eye  for  detail  and  the 
ability  to  work  both  as 
part  of  a  ream  and  under 
pressure  are  essential. 

Please  send  CV,  stating 
current  salary,  to: 

Please  send  CV,  slating 
current  salary,  to: 
Romnbis  Constncrion 
Ltd, 

Sa ad  ford  House, 

J8  Maynard  Close. 

KhvRd, 

Lreodon  SW6  2DB. 


STOP  PRESS 
LEGAL  CREME 

Tuesday  7th 
March 

within  the  Legal 
Appointments  Section  of 
The  Times. 

To  advertise  or  for  more 
information  contact  the 
Citene  de  h  Ohme  team 

Tel  0171  481  9994 
I  Fax  0171  481  9313 


Irturarr  Good  sec  skills  1 
and  Td  manner.  Suit  self- 1 
motes  sal  c£16K_ 
Based  Cbpham.  i 


PA/  SECRETARY 

LONDON  Wl 

To  woifc  with  the  two  Directors  of  an 

International  company  of  Surveyors. 

The  successful  candidate  will  be  required  to 
have  strong  inter-personal  skills,  with  both 
clients  and  staff,  initiative,  attention  to  detail 
and  ability  to  work  under  pressure  together 
with  a  high  standard  of  secretarial  skills,  and  a 
sense  of  humour. 

The  work  will  include  providing  a  full 
secretarial  service  including  co-ordinating 
hospitality  and  travel  arrangements  dealing 
with  telephone  enquiries,  shorthand,  typing 
using  WordPerfect  5.1  and  supervising  other 
secretarial  staff. 

An  attractive  package  will  be  paid 
commensurate  with  experience. 

To  apply,  please  write  with  ftill  GV.  to  Box 
No  3939 


PROPERTY  £17,808 

Use  your  excellent 
typing/  audio  skills  and 
knowledge  of  W4W  in 
this  busy '  investments 
department  where  you 
will  be  part  of  the  team, 
liaising  with  cheats. 
Beautiful  West-End 
offices  and  a  social, 
friendly  atmosphere. 
Excellent  benefits. 
Professional  appearance 
and  attitude. _ 

CJ*.C  -071-430  9821 


FTBSTJOeBKR 
PRIVATE  BANKING, 
WEST  END  05406+ 
BENEFrrsa 

A  rapertj  oppomsste^  tes 
vista  for  an  radnraasne.  weD 
presen  led  junior  secretary  m 
ibis  dynamic  conmuUc 
finance  ream.  If  you  have 
good  typing  riaOs,  S/H,  W4W 
with  a  flexible  and 

rnmriwwiffm  ■wilulf  jgg 

could  icap  not  only 
exceptional  financial  rewaidx, 
but  also  receive  an  enefleni 
grounding  rat  the  find  rung  of 
your  outer/  twatfog  ladder. 

C.P.C.  871-438  9021 


25,000 


SALES  SECRETARY  /PA  to 
MANAGING  DIRECTOR  &  SALES  MANAGER 
Based  in  Putney  Salary  516,000  plus  bonus 

1  Hill  Prico  Davison  is  a  well  established  computer  soft¬ 
ware  company,  with  a  record  of  providing  business 
software  la  financial  institutions  oil  over  the  world. 

We  need  a  competent  individual  who  likes  to  be  part  of 
a  hard  working  team,  with  a  flexible  and  adaptable 
approach  to  work.  Accurate  secretarial  skills,  conver¬ 
sant  with  WP  systems  and  PC  applications  essential  plus  ' 
French  and  Spanish  desirdble. 

Please  send  letter  and  CV  to  Christine  Slone, 

HELL  PRICE  DAVISON 

Aspley  House,  176  Upper  Richmond  Road,  Putney. 
London  5WI5  25H 


Cbrius,  lire  leading  skin  care  and  cosmetic  bouse  offer  the 
following  excellent  career  Opportunities: 

TRAINING  ADMINISTRATION 
CO-ORDINATOR 

This  role  involves  the  day  to  day  co-oidmaaon  of  ■  busy 
team  of  Trailring  Managers  and  die  of  training 

courses.  The  ideal  candidate  should  possess  excellent  WP 
skills  (60  win},  be  able  to  wok  tut  their  own  initiative, 
have  credlem  organisational  flair  arid  a  professional 
phone  manner.  An  excellent  opportunity  io  be  pan  of  a 
dynamic  itv1 

SALES  ADMINISTRATION 
CO-ORDINATOR 

This  position  involves  the  arimjnwmrmn  of  a  large 
promotion*  team  in  an  enrerndy  hectic  environment.  The 
successful  candidate  should  have  sound  secretarial 
experiarce,  be  able  to  run  an  effective  promotions 
schedule  and  be  a  good  communicator.  If  you  arc  bright, 
enthusiastic  and  enjoy  a  challenge  apply  now! 

ti  you  possess  a  minimum  of  one  year’s  experience,  we 
offer  a  very  competitive  salary  and  generous  product 
allocation,  please  toad  year  Cnmcntom  Vine  toe  The 
Persoond  Department,  Clarim  (UKJ  Ltd,  4  Queen  Street, 
Mayfab,  London.  W1X  SND. 


CLARINS 


■PARI 


CHAIRMAN’S 

OFFICE 

£25,000  PACKAGE 

Due  to  the  promotion  of  the  current  PA  ws 
are  lookaig  for  another  pmgon  to  assist 
tie  Chairman  of  a  vary  successful 
commodity  tracing  company.  Ftoxfoffity, 
dptomaCY  &  commitment  are  key 
ingredients  as  there  is  a  great  deal  of 
tavotvement  fat  tha  Chairman's  personal  and 
business  affairs  &  a  lot  of  contact  with  high 
level  business  people.  Salary  package  u 
around  £25.000.  Shorthand  essential. 

Can  071  439  7001 


SECRETARIES  PLUS 

T?i »  Sef.re:c!T.:,V  Cc.isi:li2Pls 


INDEPENDENT  FINANCIAL.  ADVISERS 
c£l&j000 

PA  inraircd  (be  Partner  and  Senior  Sales  Consilium  in  small, 
friendly  firm.  Sense  of  humour,  team  spirit,  willingness  to 
learn  and  flexibility  naenrieL  Experience  in  xeomris!  duties 
including  60wpni  W4W  although  Microsoft  Excel  A 
ffaorttead  preferred  but  mu  essential. 

Educated  lo  A  level  nudard.  Age  ?5+. 

Plena  send  CV  to  J  Ruasell,  Francis  House,  Francis  Street. 
London  SW1P  IDE  No  Agencies 


ITT 


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£15,000  S.W.6 


Are  you  a  boro  organiser  and  a  real  adf-atarter?  Do  you 
thrive  cm  using  your  initiative  and  being  part  of  a  dose- 
koh  team?  If  to,  jtnmi^  an  expanding  retail  and  wholesale 
fashion  company  could  be  me  answer.  You’ll  ran  the 
offices  tike  dockwoffc,  handle  mail  order  booking!  and 
generally  be  invaluable  as  the  MD*k  ‘right  hand*.  Fast 
Word  for  Windows  essential.  Age  21-35. 


TELEVISION  MARKETING 
-£24,000 

Our  charismatic  clients  op  an  international 
television  marketing  company  w here  his  dynamic 
style  has  made  them  world  leader.  He  needs  a 
graduate  PA  with  an  interest  in  business  to  act  as 
his  after  ego,  to  process  matters  while  be  is 
travelling  and  to  be  an  integral  part  of  his  strong 
management  team.  Age  25-35.  Skills  100/70 


SECRETARY  , 

c£I9K+  Bens 
City  Co.  has  new 
opportunity  for  smart 
team  player  with  W4W 
exp  £  stable  work  history. 
Excellent  career  move. 

FAIRSTAFF  AGY 
071  439  2051 


ASSISTANT  IN  PR 
£15,000 


PROJECT  PA/tnOKHNATOR 
Dly  £22/100  (G  month  contrad) 
Must  have  excalm  Pnwtrpnau. 
Excel  4  Wort  sUb  ft  be  raffing 
TO  wok  ■feato'  horn.  Brea  opp 
IP  earn,  gat  inly  BMfmd  ri 
project  &  late  an  own  anas  of 
raaponriUty.  Contract  tenawable 
CaRJufia  flans  on  081  878 
0394  AMD  Rec  Cons 


FACILITIES 
SECRETARY,  Wl 

£14000  +  Snpefb  Bens 


You  raD  be  bams  mUi  «*— s 
and  anradmg  a  development 
program  to  PB.  radsetivety 

invnlved  in  a  rapport  deaft 

You  ton  need  jour  mcretarisl 
dill*  io  osto  you  in  yoot  rale  ra 
wJ  u  gone  aramratfiaial  & 
.ImmtorativE  Am.  Tha  i  s 
rapeboppenimin  u>  betrase  an 
mtigral  pan  of  a  dynamic. 


OPjC.  071-438  9021 


ftwiara  lUrcnjgi—i 


eentes  on  the  open  irarfcct.  The 
looking  for  abiBine»  mioded 
Director. 

f  "The  R  prcssuibcd  workload, 

top  level  overseas  diems  and  planning  progianuma  of  art 
fens/exhibiaom.  Same  tbragp  travel  may  be  accessary. 


Ihe  ngfat  candidate  u  an  utteriy  protessianal  PA, 
weiaDy  adept,  styhsh.  preferably  with  a  burijoejs  or 
diem  services  background  Inoretts  in  art  and 
languages  (French)  would  be  usefiiL  Skills  100/00,  Afi 
appbesiifiii)  art  poaovriy  wekomed  Coma  ns  now  at  Angria 
Monsmer  pk  (Rec  Coos)  on:  .  ,  _ 

0171-726  8491 


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OPPORTUNITY 

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Do  you  excel  under  pressure?  Are  yon  a 
strong  and  organised  character?  Can  yon 
cope  with  juggling  various  tasks  at  once? 
If  the  answers  to  these  questions  are  yes,- 
please  read  on!  An  international  City 
Bank  has  an  immediate  vacancy  for  a 
secretary  with  banking  experience  to  work 
on  the  trading  floor.  Word  for  windows, 
Excd  and  Powerpoint  desired.  •  Age  up  to 

*  Please  call  MeBnda  Marks. 


Jonathan  Wrefl &Ce  Ltd, 

Ns.  1  New  SOW.  Ittadoa  EC2M  <T7 
Td  No.  0171-623  1266  Fib  No.  0171-04  1241 


J  ON  .Vi  H  A  \  W  RL.N  S  I:  C  R  ETA  R '  I  > 


SENIOR  CITY  SEC 

£17,000  + Bens 


An  interesting  and  involved  position  has 
arisen  with  this  blue  chip  City 
organisation  to  work  for  the  Company 
Secretary.  Doties  to  include  liaison  with 
senior  level  staffs  the  supervision  of  a 
junior  secretary  and  full  administrative 
backup.  The  role  would  suit  a  professional 
personality  with  a  solid  word  history  and 
sound  secretarial  skills.  Open  on  age 
range. 

Please  call  Mdiruia  Marks. 

Jwa&nWrta  ACeLft 
He.  I  New  Street.  Landau  KC2M  4TT 
Td  No-  01 71-423  1244  Fa*  No.  0171-626  1242 


PERSONNEL 

JUNIOR 

£14,500  +  ex c  Bens 

A  definite  opportunity  to  break  into 
personnel!  Expanding  finance  house  is 
urgently  seeking  a  secretary  with  a 
minimum  of  a  year's  experience  to  work 
withio  their  busy  personnel  department. 
Supporting  three  Executives,  the  job 
requires  an  enthusiastic  personality  with 
ideally  word  for  windows  and  audio 
experience. 

Please  call  MeUnda  Marks 


JHdnWndCDLU, 

No.  I  Nnr  Street,  Leaden  EC2M  4TF 
Td  No.  0171-423  12*6  Fix  No.  0171-62*  1242 


ON A'i'H  A N  W  R 1 N  S I: C R IiTA R I ! TS 


PA/ADMIN  ASST\ 
£20,000  * 


TOP  TEMPS 


High  profBe  position  assisting  this  Vice, 
President  responsible  for  European 
Operations.  It  is  an  admin  based  role 
with  very  little  typing.  Lots  of  client 
liaison,  organising  cars, 
meetings  etc.  Personality, 
style  and  board  level  experience 
essential.  Age  28-44  years.  Please 
telephone  0l71  4S5  2321. 


With  hourly  pay  rates  of  up  to  £10, 
loyalty  bonus,  paid  bank  holidays  and 
cross  training  onto  the  latest  systems, 
you  know  you  are  weB  looked  after 
when  you  join  our  team  of  top  calibre 
temporary  secretaries  and 
receptionist 


receptionists.  So  for  knmeefiate 


Elizabeth  Hunt 


Recruitment  Consultants 


assignments  in  the  City  and  West  End 
please  telephone  Emma,  Claire  or 
Roberta  on  0171  499  8070. 


Elizabeth  Hunt 


Recruitment  consultants 


EXECUTIVE  SECRETARY 

human  resources 


ADMINISTRATOR/ PA 

EXHIBITION 


New  Corporate  Headquarters  of  successful 
multinational  business  pubfishing  company,  created 
as  o  result  of  merging  elements  of  two  extremely 
wrf  known  organisations,  is  offering  the  opportunity 
to  work  alongside  their  Group  Human  Resource 
Director  whose  responsfeOtias  we  global  and 
predominantly  at  senior  level.  This  is  an  ejtuiiutf 
opportunity  to  work  in  a  startup  situation,  devising 
your  own  admin,  systems,  provking  first  dost 
support  Gdeciy  with  shorthand  and  MS  Word  for 
Windows)  but  with  the  scope  to  develop  the  rote  into 
wider  areas  of  the  HR  function.  Salary  e£18,50Dt 
aoe.  5  weeks  hois,  pension. 

Call  Sue  Doughty  (Hoc  Con) 

0171  491  7911 


The  Organiser  of  this  prestigious  artnud  Exhfcittan  a* 
international  repute,  wishes  to  appoint  «ei  exccOant 
PA/ Administrator,  initio*/  working  alongside  the 
existing  odmMmclor  in  the  lead-up  to  this  year's 
event,  it  b  essential  that  the  faflowing  qualities  are 
possessed  in  cbundarioe:  Initiative,  the  <±Bty  to  dad 
with  stress,  first  doss  imupetsuiul  and  secratoU 
sUl  The  position  encompasses  a  wide  variety  of 
tasks  Inducing  uupywiMug,  Msen  with  exHMors, 
management  of  invoicing  and  budget  control,  counted 
with  the  makitonanca  of  fairies*  office  systems.' 
Experience  of  both  WcndPwfect  &  MS  W/Wndows  tor 
MS  Office)  darinMe.  Safay  cX  18,500  ooe. 

Call  Sue  Doughty  (Bee  Con) 
0171  491  7911 


Heed  Office  of  Ptc 
miens  ■  stent  PA  fer  high 
profile  MD. 

fist  dbss  drills  Bssaetral  - 
shorthand,  ktta  writing  and 
rwng  drills.  Age  30+  pref. 
ErateM  salay  £20000  +. 
Please  and  fdfl  CV,  const 


Ik  Christen  Reties,  16 
Gronmr  Ptace,  SW1X  7HH 


SPANISH  SPK  LEGAL 

SEC  -  £19.500 


Suppoifag  Head  at  Dagartnent  of 
Bus  prasogiaus  Law  firm.  Audio 
and  Sjnmsli  essential. 


Contact  Sheetagft  Ratefiffe. 
Hillman  Saunders  Ltd  (Rec 
Cons)  Tel:  0171  929  0707 
Fax:  0171  929  1666  Ret: 
SI  773 


V  ra. - e - -•  ” 

apWiCMCM 

Corttoa  Kon/Tanta  Maila 


QuaUted  Cook 


tor  Brifish  owned  taun  yacht 
onontty  in  CariM— . 
Summer  in  ■idhti— ■■ 
Successhd  appttcuit  to  join 
yacht  before  Easter. 

Te  apply  call  Mrs  Thanes 
Vlril  283  2860  exljttl/ 


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BOX  Nik-  — 
C/oTha  Thnm 
Newspapers 

P.O.  BOX  3S53, 
Virginia  Street. 
London  El  BOA 


SECRETARY 

£15,000+  pa 

Small  professional  medical  society,  based  in 
London  NW1,  requires  an  experienced  secretary. 
Applications  are  invited  from  well-educated 
candidates  with  a  thorough  working  knowledge  of 
WordPerfect  5.1  and,  where  appropriate,,  a 
willingness  to  learn  other  computer  applications. 
Good  communication  skills  (both  written  and  oral), 
accuracy,  numeracy  and,  above  all,  a  flexible 
approach  to  work  are  essential  qualities. 

Please  write,  with  CV,  to  the  Director, 

Massey’s  Executive  Selection,  Premier  House, 
ndon,  SW> 


10  Greycoat  Place,  London,  SW1P  1SB 


IMMEDIATE 

STABT 

SWl 

A  newly  nrwsrri  powfjuu  fix  a 
Jntrinr  Sountgy  to  raxfc  lor  a 
tan  of  highly  protesiooa] 
paopb  in  noting  FLCL  Too  *3 
work  alongside  the  office 
mMBfm  who  wB  braethn  yon 
butanes  and  gho  yon  epical 
fscisttrisl  Fsofecta.  Y®  need  w 
be  1MJ  yean  old,  ban  paid 
audio  typing  ik3h  and  want 
involves! *nL  CXI 3. 000  + 


fOYCEGUlHKSil 


■0111589  8801  ■ 

comana  j 


CHELSEA 
ESTATE  AGENTS 


Require  a  junior  eecrcny. 
‘  sable  to  deal  with 


Mint  be.  _ _ 

gracxal  pnbfic  and  have  good 
onaobatknil 
WndPufiMST  ettentiaL 
Salary  Negotiable. 
Telephone  Maitip  Ehves 

ai  Friend  and  Ftikfce 
071  381  3022 


EUMETSAT  is  an  intergovernmental  European  Organisation 
of  17  Member  States 

m  Austria  *  Belgium*  Denmark*  Finland  "France*  Germany*  Greece* 
Ireland  *  Italy  0  Netherlands  *  Norway  *  Portugal 9  Spain  m  Sweden  * 
Switzerland  *  Turkey  *  United  Kingdom  * 


Suitably  qualified  candidates  ( male  or  female)  from  EUMETSAT  member 

states  are  invited  to  apply  for  the  following  post: 


Personal  Assistant/Secretary  to  the 
Head  of  Administration 

Ref.  no.  EUM/VN  (94)  40 


Responsible  for  the  Head  of  Adnmwnratkxt’s  office  and  organising  the  secretarial 
support  within  the  department.  Duties  cover  a  wide  range  of  administrative  tasks, 
including  international  correspondence  and  the  preparation  of  meetings.  A  good 
educational  background  and  excefiem  typing  end  PC  skBs  are  required  with  proven 
executive  secretarial  experience  in  a  rnuttCngual  environment- 


Fkiency  in  either  EngSsh  or  French  is  required  for  this  position,  together  with  a 
working  knowledge  of  the  other  language.  Good  knowledge  of  German  would  be  an 
asset.  Experience  in  using  WP  for  Windows,  MS-Access  and  Excel  would  be  an 
advantage. 


The  Contract  will  be  awarded  for  an  initial  period  over  four  years.  The  salary  is 
attractive  and  comparable  with  other  International  Organisations.  AppKcants  must 
be  nationals  of  one  of  the  EUMETSAT  Member  States. 

AppScatkms  (CV,  covering  letter,  reference  no.)  should  be  written  either  in  Engfish 
or  French  and  should  be  sent  to: 

EUMETSAT,  Ms.  F.  Jayawant,  Personnel  Officer,  Am  EMsngrund  45.  D- 
84242  Darmstadt  -  EbersXadt,  Germany.  The  closing  date  for  applications  is  9 
March  1995. 


THE  MILL 


IF  rc-V  ARE  BRJ.43L=  XEGN,  ADAPTABLE  AND  HAVE 
A  FAB'JLOL'S  SENSE  CF  HUMOUR.  CALL  LGANNE  PCRKT 
BETWEEN  !0£M  AND  SPK.  ON  0171  :0S  1141 


STOP  PRESS 
LEGAL  CREME 


Tuesday  7th 
March 


the  Legal 
Appointments  Section  of 
The  Tones. 


To  advertise  or  for  mare 
information  contact  the 
Cnfcme  de  la  Cr&ne  team 


Tel  0171  481  9994 
Fax  0171  481  9313 


CHARITY 


FUNDRAISERS 


needed  for  worthwhile 


and  rewarding  work  in 


friendly  Fnlhnn  offices. 


Courteous  telephone 


manner  sad  nrmMmt 


peraonaHty  essential 


Comnriasioa  only.  Please 


phone  071-581  1S97 


ADMINISTRATIVE 

ASSISTANT 


Required  by  the  ohmiimw  rfEta 
of  BPP  Im  School,  >  print* 
law  CeRega  in  HoRon. 
FaaMoity  with  Macintosh 
Sfdeao.  soand  aduentstrstna 
and  wan]  ptawawg  skfla 
aartid.  Sdary  range  £13- 
£15K.  Had  ItoqitiBian  aha 
mqtnd.  Story  C12K. 


For  heto  poritn. 


effidymtiiCVta  Bcola Mo! 
BPP  law  School,  42S 


llanitoi  Road.  Lsata 


WC1X  88X. 


Float  Secretaries  Required 


O  For  our  major  client 

European  Bank  for  Reconstruction  and  Development 


We  are  now  recruiting  temporary  secretaries  with  City  experience  to  join  our 
busy  float  team.  Word  for  Windows  knowledge  is  preferred.  Shorthand  and 
language  skills  also  useful. 

If  you  have  the  required  word  processing  knowledge  and  are  looking  for  work 
within  a  challenging  international  environment  supported  be  an  attractive  pay 
and  benefits  package,  please  call  quoting  _ 

reference  A1  immediately.  6  MANPOWER 

071488  2880  lbu  con  measure  the  difference 


PUBLISHING  OPPORTUNITIES 

EDITORIAL-  c£13K. 


Magazine  etitorial  department  seek  2nd  jofab*  or  ensSmt 
college  tower  to  work  with  2  others,  nporting  to  the  editor. 
Busy  jsfi  wit/i  lots  of  vartod  duties  pnduifing  fifagi).  'A*  level 
standard  of  Engfish  and  first  class  spdfing  and  (yanasar  ant  a 
must  Word  for  Windows  up  a  defeats  «*««* 


INT'L  ADVERTISING:  c£14K. 


A  cater,  unflappable  person  is  needed  to  support  3  frolic 
sates  managers,  juggEng  their  work  to  make  everyone  happy, 
as  wefl  as  loads  of  uang  with  overseas  offices,  fifing,  etc, 
etc.  etd  You  ready  do  need  fast  typing  (65+  wpm)  so  that 
you  can  get  to  do  the  restl  Supsh  opportunity  to  work  far 
prestige  publication  where  it  bappensl 

Cai  Patricia  0171  606  2411. 


C  ft  S  Pereoreal  Coasukmto. 


£25,000 

PACKAGE 


SENIOR  SECRETARY 
CORPORATE  FINANCE 
TOP  MERCHANT  BANK 


25  Daya  Holiday,  Paid  O/T,  Mortgage  APowiBCC, 
Ajsmsl  Brans,  IFSTL,  NC  Pemskm,  BUPA, 
Lift  Asnrtnct,  Subsidised  BestaanuK. 


City  Based,  thu  oxcitins  pnitioa  nm  Directare 

of  one  of  die  vwMi  kfoM  Book)  mqimn  mam  On  jut 
Koctariel.  Ocsteti  «d  prepare  prexlnwrioox,  tone  wlib 
%  voridwid fc  Most  IN 


VIP  dicats  varidwide.  MM  bxvc  Shertiumd  nd  W4W. 
Rm  Hoom,  4S  5owh  Moltea  Street,  Leadm  WlY  IHD 

Phone  Fax 

071  499  8658  071  499  9002 


-ROC  Recruitment- 


Creme  de  la  Cr£me 

appears  every  Monday,  Wednesday  and  Thursday 


£16,000 

+  EXC  BENEFITS 


JUNIOR  SECRET AR  Y 
MAYFAIR  OFFICES 
PREMIER  INTERNATIONAL  CO . 


Aamml  Boom.  25  Dxyx  HoBday.  Profit  Share. 
IFVTL,  NC  Fnaion,  BUPA,  Lift,  Health, 
Subsidised  Bwtond. 

Provide  ftd)  aecietarial  sraon  for  Senior  Manner  at 
Tune*  Top  100  rempriy.  Onuiiic  diary,  travel.  raa,ni»in 
dsttbaae.  Varied  role  leqnnes  flexible,  organised  od ML 
motivated  pason  with  55  vpm. 

Roc  Haase,  4S  Saadi  Mataaa  Street,  London  WIY  IHD 

Phone  Fa* 

071  499  8658  071  499  9002 


ROC  Recruitment- 


SECOND  JOBBERS 

£16,000  ++++ 


JUNIOR  SECRETARY 
INVESTMENT  BANKING 
PREMIER  INTERNATIONAL  BANK 

Aaaui^QmUrirBaaas,Mar^nDSabsiitt 
r  BaBda  j,  Fkii  O/T,  IFSTL.  NC  Ptaskm, 
A,  Life,  Heatih,  SutoddaedResUmxirL 


25 


Work  witb  Senior  Seoctuy  in  pmtignxB  Wat  Ead  offices. 
Handle  overflow,  take  ttfapbonc  mniupi.  W«xk  oa  oira 
proftoa.  Bright,  wefl  epokw  Jaaior,  dwerfiil  witfa  M  wpm. 


Roc  Hooae,  4S  Soaih  Molfai  Street,  London  WiY  IHD 

Phone  Fax 

071  499  8658  071  499  9002 

-ROC  Recruitment- 


Assistant  Negotiator/Secretary 

For  furnished  lettings  department  of  smaD 
professional  office  in  Belgravia. 

Must  be  numerate,  self  motivated  and 
adaptable. 

Contact:  Sarah  David  at  George  Trollope 

Tel:  0171  8248111 


Bf 


CHESTERT0NS 


i  ;>  i.  n,  i  i  \ 


Cbeslcrtons  Residential  have  the  following 
vacancies  within  their  Lettings  Division: 


Lettings  Managers 

Required  for  our  Tower  Bridge  and  Little  Venice 
offices.  Candidates  must  have  a  proven  track 
record  and  at  feast  3  year’s  experience  in  Central 
London  lettings.  They  must  be  able  to  lead  and 
motivate  a  team,  demonstrate  sound  knowledge 
of  the  legal  requirements,  industry  and 
legislation. 


Lettings  Negotiators 

Required  for  our  Hyde  Park  and  Putney  Offices. 

Candidates  must  have  a  minimum  of  1  year’s 
experience  in  the  Letting;  industry  and  be  abb  lo 
work  in  a  busy  environment. 


Secretaries 


Required  for  newly  created  positions  at  our 
Head  Office  near  Hyde  Park.  Candidates  must 
be  wdl  presented  and  have  minimum  RSA II 
Typing/50  wpm. 


Please  apply  in  writing  with  full  CV  to: 


Rowcna  Wild,  Director  of  Lettings, 
Chestertons  Residential,  40  Connaught  Street, 
Hyde  Park,  London,  W2  2AB. 


Secretary  -  WC1  c£l 6,000 


A  leading  firm  of  Cost  Management  Consultants 
requires  a  secretary  to  work  for  a  pannar  and  hte  team 
of  surveyors.  The  successful  applicant  wi  have 
provan  secretarial  experience  uamg  shorthand  and 
wordperfect  5.1  ana  will  be  numerate,  A  good 
telephone  manner  and  foe  ab#ty  to  Raise  with  dfents 
and  work  on  own  initiative  is  essential.  An  Interest  hi 
computers  an  asset. 

Ptoase  reply  with  CV  to  Box  No  3724, 

The  Times,  PO  Box  3553,  Virginia  St,  El  9GA 


MULTI-UNGUAL 

OPPORTUNITIES 


GERMAN  IN  THE  CITY 
£18,000  +  bank  bens  AAE 


An  aching 


to  work  within  a  riniltengtng 


enviroaroentfffpAwiih  flusm  Goman.  Aa  wcUaa 
liaising  with  Senior  clients,  onanhing  medn^naoHvw 
arrangements,  vou  will  perform  vaned  adrmmmrigyc 
tasks.  You  wifl  be  a  graduate  with  2  yean 
experience  and  have  a  professional  tits  miff.  Age  rus  - 
30’s.  Windows  WP  essential. 


Please  csB  Admn  Knua  te  won  iufonnatioe 


Td:  071 287  6060 


Fax  071  OH  4652 


EQUITIES  TRADING  FLOOR  SECRETARY 
(FRENCH  &  SPANISH) 
£17,500  +  IMMED  BANK  BENS 

CBy  basal  U.S  b«*  sods  confident  seeretoyw«ifc*rtFrendj 
and  Spare*  te  support  busy  Eqtams  Sjdea  Team  bessd  on  l*« 
Irwsna  Flow  tfittw  demsnctoQ  and  cSenHXwwi 
EacaBM  secretarial  and  admawtration  slifa.  Iwowtodfla  d 
Wort,  Appfcmac  and  Spreadsheets,  the  8bty  WcaniwtWBge 
at  sartor  level  usng  ywr  tan^aga  *Wb  wed  priorltne  a  vaned 
workload  Duties  Include  schedrfttg  hectic  tfanes.  anxnyp 
Intamalional  travel,  deofing  with  aaqxawea  and  ganrnw 
ensurtig  tha  smoom  njnrtng  el  the  ana. 


jdb-4 

BEB2D 


15-18  Lime  St,  Lxndoo  EC3M  7AP 
Taf  0171 929 1281  Fax  0171 621  0985 


Cinmihsna 


£28K  PKG 
PA  FRENCH  + 
MARKETING 


30  VC  typan/SH  fer  large 
SWl  Co  to  cs-onfinate 


glebed 

WoBfii  waifcatofl  tripk 
CwHww,  Gerana  profaned 


MAINSTREAM  AGY 
071  495  1830 


PA  IN  FASHION 

c£20,000 

arB5M*i*s 

Aflaenotr  co  in  SW  Umtoa  to 
roes  Irani  Devdopracra 
Dbcaar.  Exnemely  vsriaJ. 


ririth  OL 


071  3793189  (See  Grart 
The  Langntge  Basracss 


cwuwmrs  pa  cao.ooo+ 

WorEMerKWIMnCoiMk 
a  dynamic  PA  tar  OmIt  Oum- 
matte OiramaB.  FlueniFTOneti 


■MBs.  a  confannitei  approach 
wttb  mas  or  «nunn  are  ca. 
and  avaUnbatts-  ror  travel  H  pe- 
tarred,  cm  eta  6627  tlp  ao y 


DUTCHASoman;  Expo  Sec  who 
enfays  nraMnnwamii  and  tt 
work.  PtaaM  DuKSi  +  m 
Oram.  ClOK  *  orerttme. 
Mnumnaual  Services  rec  coos 
071  83*  5T9* _ 


DUTCH  BUmnaal  Sk/PA  (Grr 
man  peed  tor  Dynamic  intL 
OorrinttaBey.  Varied  new  rale. 
Od  onpuaramoai  &  WP  mams. 
Cl  UK  +  Beaus.  071  287  0424 


HUKH:  City  arm  nr.  Tower 
wm  reawnro  confident  and  war 
taieo.  yw«e  ABtag  Mtt 
Duvut  FVwcti  isadft  a  route! 

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■ '  maw .~  amL~  lOnnwnimH 
Loro  of  tfafaen  taini  Frencti  rai- 
.oa-Jfa  Uttk-WP  and  eood 
iwiniiMtoai  akflB  ess.  tcsia 
22-2BL  SWay  lo  £17000.  Ptt 
can  JBHW  Ron  an  071  494 
4012.  Oaw  Cartdn  Monato 
neat  me.  Pans- _ 


HUNCH  CITjBOO  an  opparto- 
nay  to  me  mar  rnmdi  far  m 
rot  Hatton  an  secretary  will!  a 
preWItOQi  CSy  Orm.  Ideal  Mr  a 
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iwi  tn  mother  tonoue  sttndard 
wtw  la  leonmg  far  a  varied  rale 
tn  (upon  efftces.  Typtno  SB 
wpnt.  PMaa  IWpHn  0171 
628  9029  .  EttzatMCb  HUM 
fttcrtiftment  CansutoPts 


FNEMCH  MUne  PA/aac  fhr  trad- 
ina  area  or  raw  bank.  Pne*  «p 
n  -  Ideatbr 


im-  Od  PtVtyptno  skills.  Mid 
20*s  C17K  neu  +  exd  bens  Lnna 
■  Aar  071  MO  1811 


nan  wangrou  pa/scc  csh 
prof.)  for  md  or  tad.  Broken. 
True  PA  nils  wliti  lots  or  scope. 
Hold  Art  In  MD1  Stteenca  A 
Uttse  With  dlcntt.  C22K  4  Bens. 
071  287  04®4 


FRENCH  name  tEno  MT  ess)  for 
mid  Dir  of  bm  ttnfc.  Extensive 
sdindn  reroonsiauroes  +  run 
tnvoTvemenl.  Od  PC/pres  sklBs. 
MU  20>  £i0K+exd  bens  Lana 
Matters  Aav  071  930  tan 


FRENCH  BmnaCA.Sec.SAt  eos. 
UK  CO.  Cl  I-12K.  071  287  0424 
Lanagne  Wacnimnara  Oayjca 


OatMAN/nrsncn:  TMUnonal 

esenttary  K>  work  tor  3  man¬ 
agers  tai  American  bank.  HM> 
latiBUSBe  cuuteuv  wire  Ms  of 


over  the  ‘phans.  2  years'  sec. 


advantage.  Age  2&-3G.  Salary 
to  C1S.OOO  *  pnebo-  Pts  can 
ChfatMSta  QirW  an  071  434 
4312.  Crons  OortdU  MUUUla- 
oual  Rec  cans. _ 


BE— AN  (MT  prof)  bfllng  legal 
sec  1-1  PA  role  rbr  laadlna  city 
co.  Andie  KBi  red  JU8K  Lang 

071  930  1811 


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to  work  on  l-i  ban  wire  Mgr. 
Eng  8H  cm  C18K  Lang  Special- 
MM,  Marrow  Any  07 1  409  39319 


—Ito  Spfcs  ncry/  sec  / 
admin  duties,  ndn  lyr  exp  15K 
+  bents,  unic  Lsnguaos  Appts 
071  374  0333.  _ 


Broker  CIOJSOO  *  Exeat  Bens 
for  prtvnre  cUcnfa  services  <Uv- 


me 


Spn 


psefhrred.  Would  sufl  conddenL 
Otn— tug  tndtviduai  looking  lo 
work  in  a  challenglne  team 
environment.  Age  2 Ok.  Can 


aaroguai  ori  287  godo. 


ITAUAM/Frencn.  Junior  secre¬ 
tary  to  wtn  otamtde  senior 
PA  In  French  hank  Ftusnv  In 
bran  languages,  some  office 
experience  and  excellent  orga¬ 
nisational  shins  idqrarod.  Age 
23-27.  Salary  £19.000  peka 
Pis  caD  EHsaheUi  Oulat  on  071 
434  4012.  crone  CarMS  MuW- 
Bngoal  Rec  Cons. 


ITALIAN  bn  Sec/ Admin  for  ros- 
ponrama  role.  End  ogp  tor  2nd 
Jobber.  The  Lansuage  Spedai- 
htt.  Marrow  Any  07 1499  3939 


ITALIAN 


Mother-tongue 

_ I  f  i  rin  iUnqfrrr , 

el  OK.  Una  Language  Appts. 
071  379  0033. 


French  Ml 
Sec/Adreln  tor  lynctniln  role. 
EMd  ogp  ig  uae  tangs  locauy. 
C12-1BK.  Lanouapa  apactalNtt 
Marrow  Agp'OTl  499  3939 


PAMto  Sugar  trap,  for  bWlngura 
sec,  Min  o  yra  exp-  coo.  Exdnt 
Salary.  Link  Language  Apptt. 
071  379  0353. 


A  wait  dune  German  and 
French  rao.  tor  Wakhnt  of 
European  HA3  based  In  Surrey . 
lO  nuns  frero  M2S.  Excellent 

Euro  London  Aapauitmeais 
017X  BBS  0180  or 
fox  0171  365  9849 


RUSSIAN  PA,  protofawy  wtth 


_  A  adndnlatraUva/ 
Windows  experience 
raarnTHl  Tamp  to  Berm. 
£18jOOO  +  bane.  CaB  Nattaaa 
Krasnotf  on  071  287  6060  at 


RUSSIAN* 


UP  mn  luvaMiimnc '  oatra  u 
West  End.  Min.  S  yra*  a« 


la  11 

PH  call  Sattna  on  0171  434 
4812.  Gram  OortdU  MultUin- 


TRIU1UG  ITA/CER  PA/See  lo 
nai  MO  at  uul  media  co.  HioMy 
Involved  A  demanding  role  tor 
prwnsbxnal  PA  strong  uatsan 
sfcliu.  Mid  2CTS.  22DK.  Lang 
Matter,  any  071  930  1811 


SUPER  SECRETARIES 


admwStrator/pa.  uro 
mnilred  tor  lop  tatemattanal 
Kittotitsbndge  Company,  work 
axmpuac  nobiliiyi  Excsfleni 
role  wire  ion  of  autonomy  * 
tnxtXvemenL  SuK  professional 

Adirunistrator/PA.  SO  wpm 

rro.  c £20.000  *  bonus  +  ben*. 
CF.A4V  071  379  3939. 


ADMIN  Secretory.  - — 

Company  EC4.  2B«b  typing.  SS 
wpm.  WP  6.1.  J&X4.6K.  Free 
lupch.  Age  20.26.  Tel:  071  408 
0300  Qualm  Bee  Con, 


ADVIRTISINO  Accouhb  Team 
need  a  competent  secretary. 
Window,  trained  and  lire  ability 
to  handle  a  variety  or  dunes, 
run  lively  social  aunospnere. 
£12- 14,000  pa  T  J.  A  co  071 
838  0023  M  eons 


A  P/A  to  CWef  Exec.  Top  P/H 
Agency.  Relevant  exp  In  Media. 
Good  S/Hand.  Windows  and 
monies  exp.  Driving  Uraoce 
ess.  lOOSs  senior  involvemenl 
tor  Oils  presage  role.  Image 
Important  •  Age  28-39  -  £20K 
Nag  071  439  1188  CA  Aqy 


ARTS/randnnalng  Background? 
A  uMqne  OOP-  Mr  sodaDy 
awarv  PA  won  S/M  imln  90 
WDcm  to  work  alongsida 
ptoramenl  no  wtrein  (He  arts. 
Oty  busy  diary.  oyonOnauna 
events,  flexible,  car  drive  + 
Euro  tang  useful.  Age;  27-4S 
yrs  EIBjOOO  nag.  Nerma  Sluna 
Bert  071  222  6091 _ 


CONRDBrr.  Wetmrasrored 
person  to  do  marketing  and 
nelson  tor  email  medical  com 
pan?  tn  KnttMsbrldoe.  to 
Include  some  astnnutal  work. 
Salary:  1«K  negotiable.  Send 
CVS  MSarab  Lake.  Dortorcafl, 
43  Mans  Puce.  London  SWl* 
OJZ.  TeL  C7l«l  0171. 


DTP  sec  tor  malor  bank  wttb 
confluence  tor  Trading  floor. 
PowerPoint  me  Dkg.  Main, 
stream  fagyl  071  *96  1830 


GUILDFORD  -  cJCiajOOO.  Keen 
to  use  your  London  experience 
closer  to  bonae?  Tbe  Cbdaf  Exec- 
utivr  of  a  small,  yet  Drawing 
company  naeas  a  PA  wnh 
■Quad  ■adKlil  and  otgnnlsg. 
rexud  sktbs  lo  keep  ana  step 
ahead  ra  ma  to  a  varied  and 
busy  role.  Vyoafmetoawi 
oral  buSo  knowledge  and  a  Dtp 
tomtonal  background  please  can 
Fiona  Macxay  on  0171  434 
4&12.  Crone  CortdB  Recruit 
tarot  CnpwOkntx _ 


MAYFAIR  solicitors  ratum  legal 
secretary  wnh  a  mbdiman  of 
'  one  years  liwgawon  experience. 
PifawrodCV  fo  Box  No  5903 


OPPORTUNITY  tor  talenlsd  PA 
to  asttl  lo  PbR4P  operation. 
Competent  Bee  skills  A  cam 
Ptder  uursie.  MottvsCed  sett- 
storter  wnti  interest  to  Design 

tdrmL  Salary  ctlT.fi  SL  Please 
cafl  Sur  Cooke  ReOUBment 
OTl  3QS  6Q5G _ 


1:1  pacsouOOO.  Highly  Involved 
post  tor  senior  director  who 
loves  :o  delegate.  30%  sec  con¬ 
tent  offering  as  much  raponsf- 
Mttty  as  you  can  handle.  071 
287  3044  Next  Employment. 


PA  For  busy  md  m  dynamic 
Chelsea  Property  Company 
Yeung  stafl.  ase  benefits.  Musi 
be  efficient.  comtwtenL  v  orga¬ 
nised  and  work  well  under  p» 
sore.  24+.  Good  salary.  Can 
Camilla  on  0171  376  4601. 


PAflSec.  to  Iran  Senior  Partner 
who  gedsUsn  Id  media  A  com 
tnunirouans  cUrois.  it  is  essen- 

del  that  you  hove  experience  to 
a  financial  environment. 
£18.000  +  bans.  Call  071  439 
7001  Secretaries  Plus  ■  The 
Secretarial  Cnnsulbmls _ 


PA/  SECRETARY  For  now  estate 
agents  to  CrerfcsnwalL  Musi  be 
iniemgenu  modem.  Wire  rood 
oiyiiiasaaonal  skills  to  help  set 
us  and  parttdnrae  m  exottng 
new  venture.  Salary  AAE.  CUn 
Mr  ArttUH  on  071  493  3301 


PROJECT  Sec  E16K.  Totally 
Involving.  Mam  soc  role  wire 
protect  worn  and  scope  for  Bra 
Bremen  in  nua  successful, 
expanding  West  End  company. 
If  you  hove  at  least  1  year’s  sec 
experience  and  are  Interested  in 
UUa  and  many  ratter  opportuni¬ 
ties  call  KManttMIdge  Secretar¬ 
iat  071  238  8427 


PUBLISHING  2nd  jobber  tor  clly 

PUbUshtog  ■  totem.  Advertising. 

Good  sec  skins,  no  s/h.  doss. 
audio,  bright  4-  bubbly  personal  ■ 
Ky.  Team  Player  £16.000 


Package  King  A  Toben  Recrun- 
ment  0171  W996M 


PUBUSHIHS  Jitr.  Sec  tor  May 
(urMagartneeduorud.  'A'  WvM 
or  p«i.  Suit  college  Mover  wire 
aome  temp.  exp.  Accurate  typ¬ 
ing.  windows,  enfliusuoac  * 
willing.  £13.000.  King  A  Toben 
RcauUmenl  0171  429  9448 


PUBLIC  Aflblrs  ASM.  Know 
Whitehall?  Media  mentoy? 
Like  Politics?  WPM  66+7 
Cgl 9.000  071  630  0400  tagyl 


SALES  Sacrraa ry  ■  cS.lB.O0O- 
■nternaaonal  company  based  to 
Victoria  offer  an  opportunity  to 
work  m  an  interesttoo  sales 
environment,  u  you  are  a  ma. 
tore  teemotayer  wttb  a  flexafle 
■PmiKlL  A  good  wrew  of 
humour  and  Excel/WAW  skills 
Please  contact  Lisa  Dutton  91 
Securtcor  Racndtmml  Services 
on  0171  247  7030. _ 


BALES  See  x  2.  tnlornattonai  Co. 
SW3.  CXISK.  S128  BBwpnv 
Low  typing  ctxiwru.  bemniful 
Otttom.  Sodal  Co.  Tel:  071  406 
0300  Quareo  Rec  Cons. 


8SCRETARV/  AH  rounder 
regolred  tor  durtarMl  Survey 
«*r»  to  Kenstogton.  69  wpm 
Radio/ copy.  Computer  literate. 
FlexlMr  Ota  rude.  Must  be  able 
to  work  on  own  MUattve. 
c£i&000  aar. 

Please  call  071-938  2341 


SHORTHAND  Set  W6  £13,000- 

ti 7.000.  toMmaUanal  com 


with  proven  experience,  ttvely 
environment.  081  579  9899 
Simon  Prior  LHR  any 


ffTANMORE.  Middlesex.  PA.  SO¬ 
SO  tor  demanding  role  tar  MU, 
Experience  u  heavy  industry 
absolutely  essential.  £18.000- 

£20000  +  G  wks  hall  +  parking 
+  HmUkt.  Cull  071  439  7001 
Soorclartea  Plus  ■  The  Secre- 
torial  Cramdttnb 


TRAINING  Administrator 

c£  16,000.  Busy,  vartod.  role 
bivaMoa  venue  rataarch. 
Hatton  wm  anendese  A  train¬ 
ers-  coflaung  course  weierlel 
nod  wrooranutM  admin.  Prm.1 
cue  experience  In  ramllar  role 
deeiraBto.  Can  on  377  6777 
Mtodlainn  Jrttm  rec  net 


WEST  London  £20000.  The  UK 
sUbddtory  of  dtfci  large  inuluna 
nonet  tt  looking  tor  a  PA  to 
astro  the  General  Manager.  Ida. 
uUy  ywll  have  experience  of 
running  a  small  office,  as  wet) 
tt  tetaor  level  experience.  You 
win  be  rwnwuiMe  tor  at) 
admbi.  Including  pereonttf  and 
basic  Qookkettpinu-  50  wum 


cgpy  typing  and  WP  expert 
race.  Aw  2S-3&  years.  Pleax, 
■otophone  0171  499  soto  -euz- 
■both  Hunt  necrulansni 


Th  c 

ST.  JAMES'S 

Secretarial 

COLLEGE 


learn  new  skills  and  Refresh  old  ones 

a^vihio  rixiKes  .  ,  J 


Short  flexible  courses 
in  keyboarding  and 
Teeiine  foorthand. 
Software  training  at 
introductory  and 
advanced  level  in 


MS  Word  for 

Windows  60.  WordPerfect  6.0 
for  Windows.  AmiPro  for 
Windows.  MS  Excel  Sfl  Iff 
Windows  and  MS  PowapoflA' 
afered  on  a  repjlar  .  basis. 


SUPER  SECRET  ARIES 


IIP  tn  £18.000.  Would  you  enjoy 
W  a  —““r~HSK2 
company  weed  in  U,r  W*1 
End?  You  will  have  BW  «Wl- 
aMe  DosUtou  of  working  at 
C&fggtovel  tad  wunoui  Pie 
sy  assdsdnaw- 
Oanunl  PA  «  well  as  hav¬ 
ing  the  challenge  of  laWng  on 
your  own  i  trponrlhfllllW-  TOdo 
IMS,  you  wm  raid  to  be  calw- 
friendly  sob  have*  poeittveo«fl- 
look-  Dfrectof  hv«*  apwtoncg. 
agr.  30-46. 100/36.  and  a  K«n 
player  is  eessnfttl.  Please  can 
rare  Dam-ier  on  oiti-oa 
4812.  Crom  CorkMfl  Recrull- 
meni  WwMett 


TEMPTING  TIMES 


AVAILABLE?  Soand  Sec-  skills/ 

Rec?  Emhmtesue.  flexible  wtD- 

tm,  personaHty?  Loradng  j- 

imeresdna.  w*U  paid  MW> 

mend?  Plea—  cafl  Sue  Cooke 
RecrvUment  071  36S  BQ3B  _ 


TEMPORARY  - 

ArcMtactt  6  Designers.  Must 
have  60wpm  typing,  working 
knowledge  o t  a  range  of  Wort 


mua  2  Jttore  secretarial  expert 
on  Contad  Maureen 
Henderson  P171_  73*  6282 
AMSA  Soedaltet  Rec.  Cora. 


COURSES 


COMPUTER 

TRAINING 


Phone  now  lor  a  FREE 

brochure  pack! 


We  have  1  &  2  day  comes 
on  al  popUar  MadnKsh 

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•  WordPerfect 

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OS  I  0 4 4  1  40  2 


FIRST  CREME 


COLLEGE  Lrover/Jumor  Sec. 
£10-13.000  *  Exc  Betas.  40 
wpm  WP  t  OC8E*t  nac.  Top 
kin  CO.  Esc  trakdog  +  pros- 
paett.  Next  Ema  071  -287  3664, 


RANKING  &  LEGAL 
LA  CREME 


FOR  the  beet  Choice  of  legal 
secretarial  posts  In  London  cafl 
McKIntty  Low  ParUMratUp 
oi7i  93Q  eoeo  ore  cons) 


HGW I  Secretary  raeuliH  by 
■ratottaro  in  Chiswick  W4 
pnndpWly  far  conveyancing 
maoen.  Oom  MB  Word  tor 
windows  sfcms  required. 
CompaHOvc  salary.  Tel  081- 
7420070  Ref.  AC 


LEGAL  PA  K17K.  fogm  hand  lo 
Parmer.  CUy  Arm.  BOSS  renin 
LMS  or  client  contact.  Oonfl- 
denL  numetti  PA.  28+,  A- 
levees,  typing  BO  wpni+. 
Dttmond  Agy  071-284  0178.  • 


LEGAL  Secretary.  Saddler* 
Mayfair.  Small  Madly  nun. 

general 


convey, 

work. 

preferred.  Td  071  493  3232 


RECRUITMENT 

CONSULTANTS 


WANTED  Experienced  cons  with 
a  proven  track  record  to  Join 
small  but  busy  org-  “tr—1  anting 
In  placing  mature  appL  Pottles 
PcopHe  OTI  329  4044.  . 


RECEPTION 

SELECTION 


DESIGN  CONSULTANCY 
REQUIRES  A 
RECEPTKJNIST+ 


Smart  eppaanreafaulyara 
Not 


ccro-iiKpA 
Apply  in  anting  to.1 
Emm  &«n.  Tlunb  Dm/gn 
53  Conic*  Shmt.  N5  UfT 
min  CV  and  mooring  latter 


Varant 
LoaltiM  T« 

A  Tag  Class 

RECEPTIONIST 

/tepBcadsnuste: 

H#ly  prBsntabb  and  onthnted. 
FaSf  caiman  wife  WP  5.1 
And  haw: 

wtth  a 


and  confidant  telephone  manner 
K  yoo  possess  thesa 
ptese  send  row  tv  and  cowrteg 
Mtar  ta  Vanessa  Qmh.  Rapttb 
Bmip  pic.  135-148  Tootey 
Street.  London  SE1  ZTU 


A  PA  S/H  Sae  to  MD  Cl  9,000* 
bens.  End  Property  Ob.  Ron 
friendly  office.  06 1  209  1868 


I  Receptionist  In  Prlveto  Bank. 
Pmfloe  rote.  Based  victoria. 
Must  be  beautifully  spoken  and 
presented.  Aoe  20-28.  Must  be 
uptnartiel.  CI3.BK  *  tree  lunch 
♦  bonus.  439  liaa  CA  Any. 


HJW  On  ftaoepUon.  413-14K  ■#■ 
Exc  Bros.  Age  19-30.  (ttevtous 
exn  +  exc  sieech/preB  rwc.  30 
wpm  typing  net.  /or  rath  over- 
load  work.  Young,  Trarrmfiil 
co.  Next  Entp  071-287  3666. 


MEDIA  Lawyers  seek  aka.  poi 
WiM  recraaonM  lo  work  from 
tpm  -  Turn-  Stunning  Covent 
Oardcn  ofTIces  and  many 
extras.  071  814  3627  TTLP  Any 


RECEPTION  £18.000  Ctty  Com- 
loodny  Broken  seek  a  career 
receptionist  who  U  well 
presented  and  ftaa  an  excefleni 
Wlapnone  manner.  Mtn.  typing 
involved.  Immediate  surtl 
Contact  Cathy  Sutton  an  art 
BBB  1868  (Rec.  Conm 


RECaPnomiST  Wl  E16IC  + 
£1.000  rioCies  aDowanca 
Bure  rseeraion  role  with  traaor 
enrol  causa.  Immaculate  pro- 
Mntatkm  and  a  bubUy  hauov 
PQfnxMlfly  fraenttaL  Aom 
Cau  Juno  Du  via  on  oai  878 
OS94  AWPRec  Cow 


RECEPTIONIST  £14800 
jw**4  IJr  prafesshnuu  wi 
nnti  aoM  32-40  must  be  smart 
*  w#U  spokan.  Hours  tuy  Prs- 
fer  someone  Uving  hr  me 
Umtan  oraa.  call  tdm  Roc 
Con  0171-434*221 


RECEPTION 

SELECTION 


2*-s3E *t5SI  ‘SSwo 

fgi UroraA  jMl&  WlUl  CsV.  10 6  M 

PEDD5Unl«»  SST  •  S£*** 
BBf«  intoon  8W1V 


DrcsroOWST  EC4  a.  ma«i 
contract  unraeroMV  c*SJT*‘nS 
lerer  i-ny  company.  03.000 
nro  rata.  Pure  recepcen.  - 
nguiar  hours  and  antfonn.  CaH 
jrauOyvtt  on  081  878  0094 
A  WO  Rec  PW _ 


WI  Our  CUenL  a  fums  Mur 
etipriS-  needs®  I MMMf 
pnaenMd.  extrenpaly  pndes- 


^^’SSrawntta/revwautiira 
lor  imt  very  busy  recspftan  ad 
Uwfr  new  Head  Offlff.  C16.000 
eosMk  toortn  MdudiDa  » 

Tirs.tin  Mds.  Radon  A  CHeple 

titac  Croat  0171  4QP  0744 


VOTMT  Et»c 
ramitra  an  eOdcsfl  wan  spoken 
Receptionist  for  their  mamc 
froztt  desk.  Tbh  Job  will  rvauln- 
a  lot  of  roenty  as  a  Utndv  raetti 
duty  la  gut  anwed  JE14K  pa  T  J. 
A  Co  071  S»  0023  rev  cons 


NON-SECRETARZAL 


ABSOLUTELY  Fabulousl  Cam  a 
full  tune  income  tor  part  Urns 
hours.  Can  now  07 1  603  6604 


ASSISTANT  Rcoatred  lo 
m  Pte  nlluie  -  -  Dealar. 
uaetreaos07i»a9  09aa. 


export/loraraka  coord-  prev 
exp  rat.  c20K.  Link  language 
APPla-  071  379  0333. _ _ 


LETTINGS  &  SALES 
NEGOTIATORS 


LETTfNOS  -  Negotiator 
Edam  retpdrs  LeOjngs  Hsgofla- 
tar  to  Jam  fw  ream.  Appre 
canto  need  flato  and  roountotta 
and  most  be  bat'd  wot  ulna 
Basic  4  Cottun.'  EXy  not  as  nec¬ 
essary  as  tnmratve  and  a  sense 
of  humour.  Apply  Ip  Raf:  KW. 

071  724  3100. 


MANAGEMENT  ^ttgoUttor/ 

Secretary.  We  require  a  respoiv 
alMe  person  who  wtshee  to  loto 
a  sncaessOd  letUnga  uan  in  our 
South  ffanstagton  .  office-  The 
ltuttvUhual  must  have  experi¬ 
ence  in  an  aweets  ra  uttmas 
managtnienL  he  able  lo  w 
Word  Partoct  6.  l  antmeid  a  ftdl 
drtvtag  Hence.  Reply  to  confi¬ 
dence  to  :  Pfamp  Woolf  Dnice 
Residential  0171  Wl  3771 


ADMINISTRATION 


•  ADMINISTRATOR/ 
RecnnomK  Consultant 
ipj  for  s  mull  specialist  ageacy. 
ftfcx  be  oukoiiig,  udnstodc, 
orgshiied  &  hare  the  sbiCrf  to 
sol  on  Their  own  itniiantc  in  a 
mil  (cull  cnviToomenL 
PiiyotTy  or  recruitment 
experience  beneficial  but  oat 
cssenrixL  £13,000 

ESTATE  AGENCY 
RECRUTTMENTV8 
V  071  93 8  3855  / 


MEDICAL 

SECRETARIES 


MEDICAL  ' 
SECRETARIES 


TEMPORARY 

& 

PERMANENT 
NSBOED  OBOENTLT 
LONDON’S  FOREMOST 
MEDICAL  AGENCY 


REGISTER  NOW  FOR 
IMMEDIATE  OPPORTUNITIES 


Tot  8171  499  7747 
Fkc  0171  499  7757 


Lifelind 


Lifefime  PeruMmd  Ltd 

28  Sooth  Mahon  St, 

London,  WIY  IDA 


A  COMPANY  THAT  MWOTBS 
EQUALITY  IN  BMPLOYUENT 


PART  TIME 
VACANCIES 


PA  FOR  PR 
CONSULTANT 

Lm*mW14 

Ta  ninths  office:  tec,  abma.  WP 
&  phone  date  ssMntid.  18-20 
haunt  p/w.  PR  ngp.  meful 
Write  with  CV  ta  B«  No 
3881.  C/D  Tin  .  Tram 
H—TTfaOT.  1  Vkgraia  St, 
Ltndaa  El  9BL 


Very  friendly 

property  Co.  needs  »  beautifully 

presented  local  P/T  Tctephomsl 
HccepUanbt  for  their  hectic 
reception  area.  Hours  1 .306.30 
£7.000  plus  boom  &  igng  hoill 
Radon  A  GWespla  (Rec  cans! 

01714000744. 


MARKETING  ■  Small  colourful 
company  needs  brtgtu  aecra 
lary  Cafl  Sheila  Childs  Recrtw- 
mrotOTl  437  3111 


PERSONNEL  Admbttamar.  6- 
12nonUi  kdai  ertilty  Contract  tn 
a  mexxlly  SWl  inienuHlanai 
Oranpany.  Yoo  ncM  to  have  4-fl 
yuan  good  ail  round  aecrelaru 
experience,  proven  organ  tea 

Hanoi,  planning  and  admintttra- 
tfva  s urn  to  raast  re  an  aspects 
of  Human  Resoume.  Good 
money  ■  Good  perks. 

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ARTS 


film-maker  for  our  time? 


Natural  Born  Killers  comes  to 
ritain,  David  Robinson  hears 
tone’s  free-flowing  views  on 
jer,  morality  and  movie-making 


DES JENSON 


4fter  months  of  widely 
publicised  hesitation 
by  the  Board  of  Film 
Classification.  Oliver 
Natural  Bom  Killers 
Britain  on  Friday.  So 
how  id  the  American  film- 
makefin  ally  persuade  British 
censo:  to  relent?  “If  wasn't  a 
matte  of  relenting."  he  ex¬ 
plain}  "The  true  story  is  that 
.  Mr  mnin,  the  secretary  of 
I  the  band,  was  always  very 
‘adrahrive'  of  the  film.  He 
thoiki  it  was  a  breakthrough 
andKvntcd  it  to  be  seen. 

“p  issues  were  first  that 
thee  /as  a  division  in  the 
board  -  several  of  the  others 
dislke  the  film  —  and  then 
thd  rntter  of  timing.  The 
tattoid  came  out  with  the 
coc'cai  murder  theories,  al¬ 
leging  hat  12  murders  had 
betn  inpired  by  the  film,  at 

thj  sane  time  _ 

thlt  PJrliament 
wis  chcussing  C  \  ai 
valence  in  the 
rrpdia  nd  the  vni, 

ctiW’s  'lay  is-  ^UU’ 

sue.  MrFermin  thrr 

fat  that  he  con-  uUL 

vfrgenc  of  tujc 
ejents  nade  it  uua 

iTtV"  seein 

through  i  that  , 

title.  But  went  3.DSU 

ir|  front  f  the 
board  an  an-  arOUIl 

swered  :heir  ____ 

questions  is  to 
my  motive,  and  he  finally 
passed  it  diing  a  quiet  season 
over  (prismas  when  every¬ 
one  wasou  of  town." 

Whenjl  s>oke  to  him.  Stone 
was  on  jisway  to  Oxford  to 
address  thi  Union.  Once  he 
was  in  tisstride.  talking  at 
machinejm  ran?  and  tum¬ 
bling  ovr  lis  sentences,  the 
interview,  ould  have  been  a 
rehearsal  Itwas  dear,  certain¬ 
ly.  that  hjbtd  said  all  this  not 
once  but  ltny  times  before: 

The  orie  is  about  the 
hypocrisjof  a  sodety  and  a 
culture  |ing  to  hell.  In  the 
1980s  wihave  a  sodety  that 
has  becoe  insane.  The  whole 
concept  the  news  itself  has 
been  diprted  by  television. 
It's  becoje  more  and  more  an 
entertajimenr,  done  for 
money,  me  concept  of  OJ. 
Simpsowominating  the  air¬ 
waves  iin  amazement  to  me. 
Billionsjf  dollars  have  been 
made  °f  iL  It’s  a  soda! 
issue,  fcrause  he’s  taking  up 
the  psyuc  space  that  should 
be  devoji  to  news  and  analy¬ 
sis  of  wfld  events. 

“Tony  Harding  occupied 
our  na  trial  consdousness  for 
weeks.  |was  insane,  silly  — 
two  woin  have  a  cat  fight, 
and  the  ext  thing  you  know 
it’s  on  0  front  page  of  The 
New  yd  Times.  A  woman 
cuts  off  fr  husband’s  penis  — 
it  was  fint  page  news  and 
was  agp  used  to  make 
millions  if  dollars  for  die 
networksThis  is  a  continuing 
hysteria  my  country.  It  is  a 
fantasy,  madness,  a  fin-de- 
siede  del  e  of  mass  hysteria. 
And  that  what  I  was  really 
interestec  n  in  Natural  Bom 
Killers.  T  it  is  why  1  made  the 
film  in  a  1  tterical  fashion:  the 
style  app  droates  the  content 
of  an  era  me  amok.” 

But  are  t  films  like  his  part 


C I  am  like 
you,  living 
through 
this  time, 
seeing  the 
absurdity 
around  me  9 


and  thei 
it’s  on  ti 
New  ycj 
cuts  off  fl 
it  was  a 
was  as 


of  the  problem?  “I  think  that  a 
film,  because  it  takes  a  year 
and  a  half  or  two  years  to 
make,  can  take  a  deeper  look 
at  an  event.  It  becomes  an 
active  interpretation,  an  artis¬ 
tic  action.  I  believe  my  movie  is 
not  the  media.  It’s  more  like  a 
painting,  an  act  of  interpreta¬ 
tion  like  a  Jackson  Pollock  or 
Picasso’s  Guernica.  I  think 
you  wi  11  look  back  on  this 
movie  in  the  year  2020  or  2030 
and  say  this  was  what  the 
1990s  were  about." 

The  original  script  for  Natu¬ 
ral  Bom  Killers  was  by  Quen¬ 
tin  Tarantino:  the  combi¬ 
nation  of  the  30-year-old 
director  of  Pulp  Fiction  and 
Stone.  50  next  year,  might  not 
seem  an  obvious  one. 
Tarantino's  films  display  a 
cheerful  acceptance  of  a  fin-de- 
sfecle  moral  chaos,  while 

_ Stone,  as  his 

claims  of  kinship 
11  like  with  Picasso  and 

Pollock  suggest, 
lying  has  assumed  a 

b  positively  cru- 

yah  sading  posture. 

&  in  films  such  as 

Imp  Salvador.  Pla- 

1  lc  *  toon .  Wall  Street 

a  thp  and  JFK. 

&  UJC  Before  this  se- 
j- ,  ries  of  oontrover- 

rCUty  Sial  subjects 

i  *  though,  he  had 

i  me  7  won  a  reputation 

with  his  violent, 

~  male-dominated 

scripts  for  Midnight  Express, 
Scarface  and  Year  of  the 
Dragon ;  he  now  says  that  he 
would  have  liked  to  direct  the 
two  latter  films.  “I  had  been 
looking  to  do  a  criminal  movie 
and  finally  in  the  1990s  I  have 
that  possibility. 

“Quentin  had  written  this 
script  years  before.  But  in  his 
screenplay  the  central  charac¬ 
ter  was  die  TV  journalist 
Mickey  and  Mallory,  the  kill¬ 
ers.  who  are  now  my  main 
characters,  were  only  support¬ 
ing  characters.  They  were 
unchanging,  only  symbols.  I 
wanted  to  go  more  into  their 
history.  And  I  wanted  to 
explore  the  culture  of  violence 
in  our  society,  with  a  lot  of 
socio-political  imagery. 

“I  couldn't  have  directed 
Quentin's  script  as  it  was. 
brilliant  though  the  idea  was. 
Quentin  was  very  upset  that  1 
ted  rewritten  the  script,  and 
he  has  badmouthed  the  movie 
everywhere  in  the  world.  It  is  a 
shame.  It  hurt  us.” 

But  not  too  much,  obviously. 
“In  America  we  did  50  million 
dollars,  which  is  amazing, 
because  it  is  a  much  misunder¬ 
stood  film,  not  easily  accessi¬ 
ble.  Our  biggest  audience  was 
young  people,  who  see  that  it  is 
an  honest  film.  The  theme  is 
that  love  beats  the  demon.  It’s 
sort  of  corny  but  Mickey  and 
Mallory  do  kiss.  They  do  need 
each  other.  It's  this  sort  of 
Romeo  and  Juliet  theme.  Kids 
respond  to  that  They  think 
Mickey  and  Mallory  are 
heroes." 

By  this  time,  reeling  from 
Stone’s  vision  of  a  morality 
and  heroes  for  the  Nineties.  I 
feel  fbolishly  old-world  in  ask¬ 
ing  if  he  is  in  so  many  words 
condoning  them.  “Well  you 
may  say  that  this  is  an  awful 
moral  standard  for  young 


THEATRE  page  39 

Stephen  Rea  takes  time 
off  from  Hollywood  to 
play  Uncle  Vanya  in 
Northern  Ireland 


LONDON  CONCERTS 

French  with  a  few 
too  many  tears 


THE  recreation  of  a  festival 
(in  this  case  that  of  St  Nazaire) 
and  all  that  goes  with  it  —  the 
teeming  programmes,  the  ren¬ 
dezvous  of  young  soloists  and 
chamber  musicians  from  all 
over  Europe  —  is  something 
the  Wigmore  Hall  now  has  to 
a  fine  art 

This  latest  divertissement  is 
a  tribute  to  the  great  Belgian 
violinist  and  composer  Eu¬ 
gene  Ysaye.  He  took  over 
where  Wieniawski  left  off, 
acted  as  tireless  midwife  to  the 
rebirth  of  French  music  in  the 
1570s,  and  ended  up  perform¬ 
ing  with  the  likes  of  Busoni 
and  Rachmaninov. 

If  the  opening  concert  was 
anything  to  go  by.  both  per¬ 
formers  and  audiences  will  be 
on  their  knees  by  the  end  of  the 
week.  There  is  little  relief  from 
the  passionate,  expansive  idi¬ 
om  of  these  tura-of-the-centu- 
ry  works.  And,  on  Saturday  at 
least,  there  was  little  in  the 
performances  which  tempered 
passion  with  sophistication, 
the  extrovert  with  the  inward. 

Two  major  works  framed 
the  evening:  Faurt’s  Piano 
Quintet,  played  by  the 
Chilingirian  Quartet  and 
Jeremy  Menuhin:  and 


Ysaye  Festival 
Wigmore  Hall 


Chaus  son's  Concert  in  D  for 
violin  (Philippe  GTaffin), 
piano  (Pascal  Devoyonj  and 
string  quartet  (Chilineirian). 
Both  were  dedicated  to~Ysaye: 
both  were  played  with  almost 
overwhelming  enthusiasm. 

The  voice  of  Ysaye  himself 
was  heard  in  Devoyon’s  and 
Graffin’s  performance  of  the 
Poe  me  elegiaque  for  violin 
and  piano  (dedicated  to 
Faurt).  Graffin  clearly  loves 
Ysaye’s  music  dearly.  The 
burnished  qua  lily  of  his  vibra¬ 
to.  and  its  unique  tone,  fusing 
strength  with  sweetness,  made 
for  a  stylish  opening  signature 
to  the  series. 

And  then,  the  one  bonne 
touche  of  the  evening.  Jeremy 
Menuhin  and  Pascal ~Devoyon 
joined  forces  mischievously 
for  the  Faure/Messager  Sou¬ 
venirs  de  Bayreuth,  a 
marvellously  disrespectful,  yet 
not  unaffectionate,  salon  fan¬ 
tasy  for  four  tends  on  all  the 
best  times  from  The  Ring. 

Hilary  Finch 


In  order  to  please 


Oliver  Stone  on  his  own  film:  “ Natural  Bom  Killers  is  about  the  hypocrisy  of  a  sodety  and  a  culture  going  to  hell 


BRAHMS  back-to-front  is  the 
subject  of  Christoph  von 
Dohn&nyi’s  pair  of  concerts 
with  the  Philharmonia.  Hilary 
Finch  writes.  The  orchestra's 
principal  guest  conductor 
began  with  the  mighty  Fourth 
Symphony  and  will  end  next 
Monday  with  the  First.  This  is 
a  cunning  strategy:  the  ears 
are  at  their  most  receptive  for 
the  most  demanding  work: 
Brahms’s  musical  thinking 
falls  into  revealing  retrospec¬ 
tive  shape;  and  preconceptions 
are  given  a  good  dusting  out 

So  it  was  that  the  Fourth 
became,  for  once,  a  lively 
upbeat  to  all  that  was  to 
follow.  DohnSnyi’s  approach 
to  the  work,  characteristically 
Iudd  and  meticulous  of  en¬ 
semble.  emphasised  this. 

DohnAnyi  would  finely 
hone  the  line  of  the  strings  at 
the  appearance  of  the  horns, 
so  that,  when  at  last  upbeat 
becomes  downbeat,  the  cut¬ 
ting  edge  would  be  razor- 
sharp.  This,  in  turn,  gave  the 
illusion  of  an  extreme  pianissi¬ 
mo  from  strings  and  wind  at 
the  start  of  the  second 
movement. 

The  scherzo-like  nature  of 


Philharmonia/ 

Dohnanyi 

Festival  Hall 


the  third  movement  was  pre¬ 
dictable:  yet  the  whiplash  of 
bow  on  string  as  its  material 
became  more  and  more  com¬ 
pressed  still  stung  unexpected¬ 
ly.  Each  of  foe  finale’s  32 
variations  was  clearly 
characterised. 

Brahms  declared  of  foe 
Second  Symphony  that  he  had 
“never  written  anything  so 
sad,  and  the  score  must  come 
out  in  mourning".  DohnAnyi 
took  him  at  his  word  though, 
typically,  he  made  the  music 
wear  its  black  crepe  lightly. 

The  fine  details  of  articula¬ 
tion  m  the  opening  movement 
created  a  sense  of  shifting 
shades  of  grey:  horns  and 
woodwind  breathed  into  a 
light,  chill  air.  Although  Mich¬ 
ael  Collins’s  clarinet  was 
missed  in  a  somewhat 
unbeguiling  third  movement. 
Dohninyi's  austere  approach 
was  vindicated  in  a  balanced 
and  rhythmic  finale. 


people.  Yes.  but  you  have  to 
look  at  the  relativism  in  the 
movie.  1  agree,  52  murders  is 
something  you  can  never  con¬ 
done.  But  the  truth  is  that 
those  52  murders  are  relative 
to  foe  mass  murders  that  have 
occurred  in  this  whole  20th 
century.  I  show  images  of 
Hitler  and  Stalin  on  foe  back 
projection.  Look  at  the  whole 
picture.  I’m  saying.  Look  at 
their  back  story.  Look  at  their 
parents.  Look  at  what  they  do. 
Judge  it  in  foe  sight  of  foe 
cosmos.  Look  at  the  whole 
world  and  the  whole  century. 
Mickey  and  Mallory  are  the 
by-product  of  a  century. 

“I  do  not  condone  murder.  I 
am  a  Buddhist.  I  am  like  you, 
living  through  this  tune,  see¬ 
ing  the  absurdity  around  me, 
foe  madness.  I  don’t  know  if  I 
condemn  it.  I'm  not  sure  I’m 


comfortable  condemning  it 
because  maybe  that  is  the 
destiny  of  this  era,  to  take  us  in 
that  direction.” 

The  moral  waters  seem  to  be 
getting  no  shallower  or  clear¬ 
er.  So  does  he  enjoy  the  kind  of 
controversy  that  rages  around 
his  latest  film?  “When  you  get 
controversies  over  issues  that 
are  non-issues  it  is  bothering. 
Natural  Bom  Killers  would 
have  made  more  money  if  it 
had  been  less  controversial. 
All  we  heard  on  this  film  was 
about  the  violence,  when  real¬ 
ly  it  is  foe  idea  of  foe  movie 
that  is  subversive  —  the  idea 
that  these  people  can  kill  52 
people  and  get  away  with  iU 
and  that  foe  media  are  made 
to  seem  more  evil  than  the 
killers." 

Stone’s  next  project  is  also 
bound  to  be  hotly  debated:  a 


film  about  Richard  Nixon.  “I 
feel  we  should  go  back  and 
look  at  Richard  Nixon,  at  both 
sides,  good  and  ted.  Every¬ 
thing  he  said  in  1946  when  he 
first  got  elected  to  a  Republi¬ 
can  seat  has  come  true.  He 
made  politics  into  war  and 
that’s  what  is  happening  now. 
They  are  fighting  to  foe  death 
with  each  other.  1  think  he  has 
a  lot  to  say  about  our  era-  A 
very,  very  contradictory  man 
who  hoist  himself  with  his 
own  petard.” 

The  director  plans  to  cast 
Anthony  Hopkins  as  Richard 
NLxon.  “He  will  be  good 
because  of  his  invisibility.  You 
can’t  have  a  star  in  that  role. 
You  need  somebody  invisible, 
a  character  actor  like  Kingsley 
or  Hopkins."  And  just  when 
we  optimistic  British  thought 
we  had  a  star  of  our  own. 


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IHITECTURE:  Marcus  Binney  on  an  exhibition  dedicated  to  an  18th-century  pioneer 


his  oyal  Academy  ex- 
hib  jn  goes  far  to  re- 
sol  ig  one  of  foe  great 
s  c  English  arehitec- 
Wa *  Uchard  Boyle.  3rd 
of  irlington.  just  an 
ipliifd  amateur,  like 
If  -century  country 
raejor  was  he  a  virtual 


Building  on  the  past 


ie  of  irlington ’5  contem- 
ries.  jo rd  Chesterfield. 
i  in  s  amous  letter  to  his 
hat  t  pioneer  of  English 
diann  had  “lessened 
elf  r  getting  to  know 
lech  ical  parts  of  archi- 
•e  u  well.  Yet  Count 
■otti.  ining  with  Freder- 
leCal.  discussed  Bur¬ 
in  mhe  same  breath  as 
iiodd  Inigo  Jones, 
thiskhibition  the  cura- 
ohnHarris.  shows  that 
jy  npuriington's  career 
lis  tupendous  acquisj- 
of  it  drawings  of  botn 

anflPalladio  in  1720-21. 

yed  later  he  began  the 

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Burlington's  arcadia:  the  new  villa,  old  house  and  stables,  seen  from  across  the  road 

motif  If  this  sounds  slavish.  Baroque  by  returning  to  the  always  know  what  he  was 
this  was  foe  century  in  which  simplicity  of  foe  Antique.  Here  using  as  a  model.  So  foe  very 
Goethe  watched  the  Academy  Burlington  had  a  remarkable  rich  ailing  of  foe  little  gallery 
at  Vicenza  cany  foe  motion  30-year  start  on  almost  every-  linking  his  villa  with  the 
“imitation  is  superior  w  inven-  one  on  foe  Continent.  adjacent  Jacobean  house  was 

non”  by  a  Jarge  majority.  The  As  relatively  few  of  foe  copied  from  a  drawing  of  a 
apostles  of  neo-dassicism  architectural  drawings  in  his  Roman  ceiling  at  Fozzuoli. 
sought  to  purify  art  from  what  collection  were  labelled  or  By  contrast  foe  remarkable 
theysaw  as  foe  excesses  of  the  inscribed.  Burlington  did  not  scrolled  ceiling  of  foe  Blue 


always  know  what  he  was 
using  as  a  model.  So  foe  very 
rich  ailing  of  foe  little  gallery 
linking  his  villa  with  foe 
adjacent  Jacobean  house  was 
copied  from  a  drawing  of  a 
Roman  ceiling  at  Fozzuoli. 

By  contrast  foe  remarkable 
scrolled  ceiling  of  foe  Blue 


Velvet  Room,  usually  attribut¬ 
ed  to  the  designer  William 
Kent  because  of  its  volup¬ 
tuousness.  came  from  a  Re¬ 
naissance  design  by  a 
Mantuan  architect  the  wild 
card  in  the  collection. 

Among  foe  most  beautiful 
items  in  the  exhibition  are  the 
numerous  paintings, 
drawings  and  engravings  of 
foe  Chiswick  gardens.  These 
are  remarkable  for  showing 
foe  degree  of  perfection  the 
English  lawn  had  reached 
even  in  the  early  18th  century. 

Just  as  Chiswick  House  was 
a  Veneto  villa  in  miniature,  so 
foe  grounds  were  a  microcosm 
of  garden  art  Everything  that 
Italy,  France  and  Holland  had 
to  offer  —  topiary,  arbours, 
dipped  orange  trees,  a  wilder¬ 
ness  and  bowling  green,  stat¬ 
ues.  urns,  grottoes,  cascades, 
fountains  and  canals  —  were 
here,  as  well  as  Kent’s  new 
notion  of  informal  gardening 
without  “level  or  line”. 

•The  Palladian  Revival:  Lord 
Burlington,  his  Villa  and  Garden 
at  Chiswick  is  at  the  Royal 
Academy  {0171-439  74381.  until 
April  2 


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Herey  Goodman  and  Margot  Lao*** 
wp  superb  as  the  oenral  Jew**  couple 

in  DovidHiacLer'c  production. 

ranstentig  tram  Hie Nrtoia)  foraien- 

wrx>k  season  Nartomrtde  tew  tow*s 
Duka  ot  Yffllfs,  SI  Martin's  Law.  WC2 
(0171-836  51221.  Previews  tongs  and 
(omornw.TJSpril.OperWftr  <8 
HAYQW  W  LON  DOW  Raynor* 
Leppard  and  the  EngfisM  Chamber 
Orchestra  MtetWW  uw  200th 
anmwsarv  o>  Haydn  s  visa  !o  London 
«rth  a  perfcvnwnCiB  ot  Ins  Sana  di 
ftwrawand Symphony  No  103  te  Eflat. 
Drumnjfl  Worte  nom  MazBrt  and  Viotli 
rpvjrri  out  the  prograrTm?.  Yvwvw 
►jenny  ani  Stephan*  Gentey  are  the 
sotoktt- 

Rartiiean  SK  Slieei.  EC?  (0171  -838 
88911  Tongfit  8pm  © 

SPRING  LOADED:  The  amua  Om*- 
lesl  opens  here  itife  week  alter  an  earSer 
l3ste  at  the  South  Bar*.  Twenty -two 
small  British  dance  companies  wsi  play 
oww  me  newt  1 2  weeks,  stowing  a  wide 
range  at  choreography,  mostly  Dy  young 
creators  sesected  lofbwig  fresh, 
vinomus  and  dsCemwwd.  JteGaneSr* 
jiijging  Project  and  JezzeXchara^e 
si  art  the  3enes 

Place.  PuWs  Road.  WC1 1017I-3B7 

0031)  Tcroght,  8pm 
SPANISH  STILL  LIFE  A  rare 
opportunity  10  see  a  stM-afe  iradilton  thal 
is  undewepieserted  here  but  fl3  old 
and  (riparian!  as  that  ot  Maty  and 
Holland  The  anGts  span  tne  range 
irnm  vefesquez  to  Goya  and  In  between 


MAWTMfSBBiAVW  The  Pars 
Waller  muswaj  show  an  evening  of 
sionipeig,  lapping,  0M*erant  song  and 
dance 

Trtaycte  Kfajm  High  Rd.  NW  (0171- 
323  10001.  Torughl-Saf.  8pm.  mat  SaL 
4pm  Returns  m  person  at  ihe  bu< 
office  horn  7pm  only  Transferring  to  the 
Lync  from  Mai  B.  IB 

□  CELLMATES.  R*  MayaJI  and 
Stephen  Fry  ptey  Sean  Bourse  and 
George  Blake.  the  very  odd  couple 
loijpther  m  Wormwood  Scrubs  and 
Moscow  Smon  Gray  cSreds  Ks  own 
piay 

Albery.  St  Martin's  Lane.  WCZ  (OI 71  - 
386  1730)  Mon-Sa.  6pm:  maiaWeO. 
3pm  and  Sa.  5pm 

■  DEALER'S  CHOICE  Patnd- 
Maidoc  3  lasjanoiing  poker  drama. 
Funny  one-inars  aOound.  along  with 
pjroepliors  ol  the  tools  ot  'gambling. 
National  (CoUesfoej.  South  Bank.  SET 
10171  -928  ZI$2i  Today.  2  30  and 

7  30pm  © 

■  THE  DUCHESS  OF  HALH.  Jutiet 
Stevenson  sutlers.  Srron  Russell  Beale 
■.■/rtrtes.  in  a  production  that  isn't  puse 
tTiete  iiei  but  should  improve  belore  its 
protected  West  End  transfer 
Greenwich.  Croons  Hil  5E10(01£1- 
86B  7755)  Mon- Sat,  7  46pm-  mat  Sat. 

2  10pm  Until  Mar  £5  £) 

DEASTER  SirndSerer's  drama  ol 
■shame,  sett -pay.  penance,  clairvoyant 
py  n  natore  and  the  freedom  ot 
spnnjnme  Kane  Mlcned  directs 
WtBartvcan  Centre.  EG2  (0171-838 
889t  i  Torvghl  Sal.  7  15pm.  mss  Thus 
and  Sal.  2pm  £) 

□  IN  PRAISE  OF  LOVE:  Peter  Bowtes 
and  Lisa  Harrow  in  Rartigan  drama 
about  Demg  very  brave  when  facing 
death  Richard  Oferar  dueds. 


NEW  RELEASES 

•  ANDRE  Adventures  ol  an  orphaned 
bear  Wen-pactond  family  film  wth 
Kenh  Catradme,  Tim  Mapnno  and  a 
■scere- steal  mg  sea  lion  Director,  George 
Miller 

MGM  Trocadero©  (0171  -434  0031) 
Odeons:  Kensington  101428  9146661 
Mezzanine  Q  (0 1 426  9 1 5683)  Swiss 
Cottage  (01426  31 4098)  Ptaza  10800 
S8E997)  UCI  Whtteteys  0(0171  -792 
33321  Wemerg)  (0171-437 4343) 

BANDIT QUEEN:  Dynamic, 
controversial  drama  atom  India’s 
fegendary  outlaw;  a  ground -breaking 
production  ty  Shekhar  Kapur. 

CfMtaoa  (0171-351 3742)  Ctapham 
Picture  House  (01 71  -198  33231 
CurzonWest  End  (0171369 1722J 
Odeon  Kensington  |0 1 426  91 4866) 
Screen/Green  (0171-2263520) 

•  BLACK  BEAUTY  Unsahsfymg. 
gloomy  v©re«n  erf  the  ch  Wren's  classic, 
learning  Sean  Bean  and  David  ThewSs. 
Director.  Caroline  Thompson. 

Barbican  S  (0171-636  8891) 

Ctapham  Picture  House  (0171-198 
3323)  MGMx  Fulham  Road  (0171  • 

370  2636)  TYocadero  (5  (0171-434 
0031 1  Ua  WhBaleys  |S  (01 71 -792 
3332)  Warner  B  (0171-437  4343) 
CAMILLA  Whirrracal  swansong  lor 
Jesara  Tandy,  an  aged  concert  vn6mst 
who  rejuvendes  a  younger  vreman 
iBndgei  Fonda)  Dfector,  Deepa  Mehta. 
MGM  Shattestwry  (0171-636  6279) 

HOLY  MATRIMONY  Sexpm  an 
AnaMpfiSJ  ccmmunty  Queasy,  intunrry 
comedym  with  Patricia  Arquette. 

D«ector.  Leonard  Mmoy 
MGM  PtccarUty  (0171-437  3561) 

•  RUDYARD  KIPLINQ’S  THE 
JUNGLE  BOOK.  Mudded  Sve-action 
adventures  ol  jingle  boy  Mowgi  With 
Jason  Scon  Lee.  Lane  Headley.  Carv 
Owes  Dkeidar.  Stephen  Sommers 
MGM  Cheteea  10171-352  5096) 
Odeon*  Kenaington  (014269(4806) 


THE  TIMES  WEDNESDAY  FEBRUARYZ2.1995 


TODAY'S  EVENTS 


A  daily  guide  to  arts 
and  entermtnnrwfrf 
compiled  by  Kris  Anderson 


you  wl  find  Sdnchez  Cotin.  Van  def 
Hamen.  aibarin.  ftreda  and  Luc 
MeMndez. 

National  Gaflery,  Trat^ga  Square. 
WC2  (0171 -839  3321).  Mon-SaL  10am- 
6pm:  Wed  (o  8pm:  Sun.  2pm -6pm 
Today  urtf  May  21  Late  opening  WM. 
exfoWron  gafcries  wch  hie  musk: 
(reduced  acSresaon  tromS.15pm  at  62! 

ELSEWHERE 

BmWNGHAM  Sk  Sanon  fWfle  and 
iho  CJty  of  Bkrolngham  Symphony 
Orchestra  launch  the  season's 
TiTwards  (he  Mflgmun  tesDvaL  when 
wit  be  deckated  to  lha  ans  oiina 
(9409.  Tonight's  programme  includes 
works  Horn  Stravnaky.  Mossiaen  and 
Bartofe  wth  parw  P(M  Crosslay  and 
the  lacks  of  the  C8SO  Chorus. 
Symphony  HaM.  Broad  SfewlB 
10121-3123333).  Tonight,  730pm 
Repeated  Thws  in  CwdMB  (01222 
371236)  and  Fn  n  London  B  (0171  -928 
8800) 

OXFORD:  Oxford  UnMsraty  sJucVrts 
presem  ihe  EuropeonpramwertHw 
Woodlanders,  an  operatic  vereion  d 
nhai  is  reputed  to  be  Thomas  Hardy's 
tavotfle  story.  Adapted  by  the 
Amencan  curipaser  Stephen  PatSus, 
wUh  an  impressive  Ine-upof  sotaels 
mho  have  appeared  with  Enj^sh  Toiamg 
Opera.  Glyndehoume,  Brash  Youth 


THEATRE  GUIDE 


Jeremy  Kingston's  assessment 
of  theatre  showing  bi  London 

■  House  full,  returns  only 
D  Same  seats  avaflahie 
□  Seats  at  aB  prices 


Apollo.  Shaftesbury  Awnue.  Wt 
(0171-494  5070).  Now  previewvK).  Bpm. 
Opens  March  6 

□  INDIAN  INK:  Fefeory  Kenda. 
Margaret  Tyzac*  and  An  Malk  m  Tom 
Stoppard's  new  play,  sat  m  urlcnowabie 
India  in  1930  and  a  Shepperton 
bunqajrw  today .  Peter  Wood  tfreds 
Aldwych.  Aldwych,  WC2  (0171-416 
6003)  N.W  previewing.  730pm:  mat 
Sa.3nm  Opens  Feb  27. 

□  KILLER  JOE:  Utterly  absorbing 
shock-drama  by  Tracy  Lens  where  a 
trash-nailer  larrvty  whjally  anrnTiilates 
rlseH  by  employing  a  hit-man  io  Ul  rherr 
urwvaned  Mom.  Wilson  Miam  rtreds 
the  ongnal  Chicago  production, 
transferring  from  the  Bush. 

VauderiBe.  Strand.  WC2  (0171 -636 
99371  Mon-SaL  Bprn  Until  Apr  I 

a  MAMA  I  WANT  TO  SING:  The 
tongetj-nranrag  Ofl-Broaaway  btaO. 
musical,  based  on  lha  life  ollhe  Hartem 
anger  Deris  Troy  (who  here  plays  her 
ownmother)  With Chaka Khan 
Cambridge,  Eartfiem  Street.  WC2 
(0171-494  5080)  Mon-SaL  7  45pm. 
mats  Tue  and  Sat  3pm  Until  Apr  8 

□  STRICTLY  EMTRE  NOUS.  Dudley 
Sutton  plays  W  H  Auden  when  old  and 
Rupert  HrtMay-Evans  when  young,  n 
Vince  Foxairs  wry  and  convincing  play 
set  in  a  shabby  Viennese  ndel. 


CINEMA  GUIDE 


Geoff  Brown's  assessment  of 
fume  in  London  and  (where 
indicated  with  the  aymbol  ♦ ) 
on  release  across  the  country 


SwtasCottaga  (01426914098)  West 
End  (01426915574)  UC|  WMteleyaB 
(0171-7923332) 

THE  SHAWSHANK  REDEMPTION 
How  io  suviva  long  decades  h  prison. 
Engrossing  ebama  with  Tim  Ftotfeeis 
and  Morgan  Freeman 
Odeon  Leicester  Sq  (01426  915683) 

CURRENT! 

EAT  DRfflK  MAN  WOMAN  (PG) 
Deteciabte  mosaic  of  Ta^sei  tamrty  Be 
Irom  the  director  d  The  Wedding 
Banquet  Ang  Lee. 

WmiwrB  (0171-137 43431 

HEAVENLY  CREATURES  (10) 

Ssanga,  fetal  irtendship  of  two  New 
Zealand  teenagers.  CompeWng. 
imagnatwa.  IrueMe  drama  from  dredor 
Paler  Jackson 

Gate  B  (71 7 1-727  40431  LunWete 
(0171-836  0691)  MGM  FuBiam  Road  H 
(0171 -370  2636)  Rem*  (01 71 -837 
8402)  Richmond  (0181  -332  0030i 
Semen/Baker  Street  (01 71-935  2772) 

ScreerVHHJB  (0171-435  3366) 

♦  INTERVIEW  WITH  THE  VAMPIRE 
(18):  Tom  CrUse  shows  Brad  Pitt  the 
vampire  way  of  Bta.  Dull,  over-stuffed 
version  bf  Anne  Rice's  book.  Director, 
Nefl  Jordan. 

Ctapham  Plctura  House  [0171-498 
3323)  MGMk  Baker  Street  (0171-935 
9772)  Fulham  Road  (0171 -370  26W) 
Tottenham  Court  Rood  (0)71  -636 
81481  ThicadoroB(0l71-434  0031) 
ua  WMMeys  B  (01 71  -782  3332) 
Warner  8  (Di  71-437  4343) 


Playhouse,  Beeumort  Street  (0885 
798600).  Toraght-Thuraand  Si, 
7.30pm:  Fri.  8pm.  B 

GLASGOW:  Nonwgian  pwi)a  Led 
Ova  Andanea  shows  he  aaraordmay 

laJemlnarecflaltortghlolworteby 

Haydn,  Neffeen.Jsnoxiv  Liszt  and 
RjcHnorenov.  Just  2S  Hits  year. 
Andsnes  has  already  performed  wMi  a 
bevy  of  the  worttfs  teatfing  orchestras 
and  is  vrthoui  doufct  a  name  to  watch. 
Royal  Concert  Had.  Buchanan  Sreet 
(041-2275511)  TorigM,7  30pm  8 

SOUTHAMPTON.  English  National 
BaHet  revives  Rudofl  Nureyov’s 
pnxJucnanot  Romeo  and  Juffef  after  an 
absence  ce  eght  years  from  the  British 
-japaOraffled  forma  company  ki 
1377.  U10  flenwo  is  probably  the  moat 
dramatic  and  faffliW  to  Shatespeare  o( 
any  baJfet  version  Set  to  Protaltav’s 
morutrantal  score,  wiBi  designs  by 
Erio  Fngono. 

Mayflower,  Commercial  Rood  (01 703 
229771).  Tcntft-Sat  730pm:  mats 
Tttora  and  Sal,  230pm.  Q 

LONDON  GALLERIES 

Bartrtcan  Impressionism  In  Brtrai 
(0171-63S-4I41) . . .  British  Museum 

Byzmbne  Treasures  ftom  Bmbh 
OaDecSons  (01 71-636  1355) . . . 
Coulated  Frank  Dobson:  Saipiure 
1915-1954  (071-873  2535).-. 
Hayward:  Yves  Kl*n  (071  -928 
3144)  . .  NaHonM  Gallenr  The  Age  of 
Qeganoa  (01 71 -639  3321) ...  Royal 

Academy.  Ncdaa  Poussin  (0171  -439 
7435)..  Serpenfine;  Man  Ray  (0171- 
402  60751  . .  Tate  WBon  de  Kooning 
10171-887  80001 . . .  V  A  A:  Warworte- 
Women  Photographers  (0171-938  8500) 


BAC.UJiraxlBr  Hi.  Battersea  SW11 
(0171-223  2223)  Tue-SaL  8pm;  Sun 
6pm  Und  Mar  11  B 

□  TEMPORARY  GIRL.  Lisa  Kotn'S 
American  hh  soio  show,  on  how  to  ga 
by  as  an  office  temp  whfe  burateig  10 
treak  nto  ahonbtz. 

Cockpit  Gmeforth  Street,  NWB  (0171- 
402  5081).  Morv^aL  8pm.  fi 

B  ZORRO —TT«  MUSICAL.  The 
masked  swashbuckler  rights  wrongs, 
defies  gravity  and  gives  the  auefcnee  a 
gma  nme  m  a  typrcaly  rumbustious  Ken 
Hil  show 

Theatre  RoyaL  Geny  Radies  Square, 
Stratford.  E15  (0181  -534  0310).  Mon- 
SaL  8pm:  mats  Mar  2, 2pm  and  Marl  t 
and  18. 3pm.  UnSMar  18.  B 

LONG  RUNNERS 

□  Arcadia:  Haymarket  (0171-930 
8800)..  □  Blood  Brothers:  Phoww 
(0171-8671044)  . .  □  Copscabana: 
PmceolWateS  10171  -839  59T2)  . 

□  Don't  Dress  for  Dinner.  Duchess 

(0171-4945070).  □  FhraGuya 

Named  MOV  Lyric,  final  week  (0171. 
494  50451  B  Mtes  Satoon:  Theatre 
Royal  (0171-494  5400).  □The 
Moumfrap.  SfMartn's  10171-636 
1443)  ■Oflveri:Patadum{0171- 
494  5020). .  .  □  On  Approval: 
Playhouse,  final  week  (01 71 -839  4401) 
■  The  Phantom  of  the  Opera:  Her 
Majesty’s  (01 71 -494  5400)...  □  She 
Loves  Me  Savoy  (01 71  -836  8888)  . . 
B  The  Sistets  Rosensweig  Otd  Vic, 
final  week  (0171 -928  76161 . . 

B  Sunset  Boulevard:  Adeiphi  (0171- 
3440055)  .■UvaaTal  Woman, 
wyrefcams  (0171-389  1738) . . . 

B  The  Wbman  fn  Black:  Fortune 
(0171-8362238) 

Tidcei  mlormaban  supplied  by  SodMy 
of  London  Theatre. 


♦  ONLY  YOU  (PG)  MereaTomel 
chases  Ihe  man  of  her  dreams  through 
Italy.  Lazy  biend  of  comedy,  romance 
and  traM9fogue(  wto  Robert  Doumey  Jr 
DaEflar,  Norman  Jewison 

MGMk  Cheteea  (0171-362  5096) 

Tottenham  Court  Rood  (0171-636 
6 1 481  Orleans:  Mezzanine  B  (01 426 

915683)  9iilss  Cottage  (01426  914096) 
UaWhitetoy96(0171-7923332) 

♦  THE  ROAD  TO  WELLOTLLE  (IB): 
Frofcs  and  chicamy  a)  a  tum-oWhe- 
centuysanlartuin.  Overdone  haaBfi 
food  aaiire,  with  Anthony  HopWne. 
BarMcan6<01T1-638  8891)  Odeons: 
Kensington  (01428914686)  Marble 
Arch  (01 426  S145D1 )  MeEmntea  G 
(01 428  91 5683)  Swiss  Cottage  (01426 
9 1 4096)  UCi  WMataya  B  (01 71  -792 
3332)  Warner  B  (D171-437  4343) 

♦  SHALLOW  GRAVE  (18).  Wictedy 
enjoyable  comedy-thnler  about  three 
Edrturgh  duns  and  a  corpse  loaded 
with  money.  Danny  Boyle  drads. 
BwMeailfi<017f  -6388891)  MOUtac 
Fulham  Road  (0171-370  2836) 

Haymsrfcet  (0171 -839 1B27) 

9mfteshwy  Avenue  (01 71-638  6279) 
Screen/  Babar  Street  (0171-935 
2772)  UCI  WMMeys  B  (01 71 -792 
3332)  Warner  B  (0171  -437  4343) 

♦  SOUTAfRE  TOR  2  (15):  Body- 
language  leduar  pursues  archaeologist 
wan  ESP.  Awkward  comedy  from  Pig 
Fmrrer  oo-dredor  Gary  Sryor.  With 
Mark  Frenkel  and  Amanda  Pays. 

MGM  Trocadero£)[0t71-434  003.11 
Odeon  Kanatagton  (Q1426 914668) 
PtazaB  (0800  888997)  WtenarB 
(0171-437  4343) 

♦  STAR  TREK:  GENERATIONS  (PG) 
Taiky  but  acceptable  film  debut  for  the 
stars  of  Wevrsion's  Star  Trefc  The  Next 
Generation.  Patrick  Stewart  meets 
Wiliam  Shatner  David  Careen  effects 
EmpireG  (0800  888911)  MGM  Batar 
St  [0171-935  977^  FUffiem  Rd  (0171- 
370  2636)  Tracadero  B  (01 71 -434 
0031)  UCI  WNtatoye  ®  (782  3332) 


On  their  toes  at  the  Bolshoi  to 


C 


DANCE:  In 
Moscow,  John 
Perdval  watches 
one  of  the 
world's  top  ballet 
competitions 

The  annual  Prix  de  Lau¬ 
sanne  deserves  to  be 
much  better  known 
than  it  is  in  Britain,  consider¬ 
ing  that  half  of  the  Royal 
Bailers  present  principal 
dancers  have  been  among  its 
winners.  Not  to  mention  oth¬ 
ers  now  on  the  strength  of 
Birmingham  Royal  Ballet, 
English  National  Ballet  and 
Rambert  Dance  Company, 
and  many  more  in  the  past 
Hie  British  ballet  establish¬ 
ment  tends  to  be  sniffy  about 
the  international  dance  com¬ 
petitions  that  have  proliferated 
since  the  Bulgarian  Ministry 
of  Culture  astutely  started  one 
in  the  Black  Sea  resort  of 
Varna  in  1964.  thus  gaining 
tourists  and  publicity.  Danc¬ 
ing,  we  reckon,  is  supposed  to 
be  about  ait,  not  virtuoso 
displays.  But  there  is  another 
side  to  the  coin:  competing  can 
motivate  young  dancers  and 
develop  their  talents  quickly. 

The  Prix  de  Lausanne  is 
different  from  the  rest  because 
it  is  only  for  dancers  before 
they  start  their  professional 
careers.  Girls  from  IS  to  17  and 
boys  up  to  IS  can  win  scholar¬ 
ships  or  cash  prizes  to  help 
with  further  study.  What  the 
judges  are  looking  tor  is  talent 
and  potential. 

Candidates  come  from  all 
over  the  world:  112  of  them 
from  27  countries  this  year. 
And  although  the  standard 
varies.  I  would  bet  that  even 
some  who  were  eliminated 
before  the  final  are  going  to 
make  a  mark.  Watch  out 
especially  far  the  two  top 
winners.  Garda  Portero  Gon- 
zalo,  from  Spain,  is  only  just 
15.  but  he  is  a  bom  performer 
and  already  gives  an  adult 
depth  to  his  melancholy  free¬ 
style  solo.  Jean-Luc  Burke, 
French,  is  17  but  only  started 
dancing  three  years  ago.  His 
Corsair  solo  could  put  many 
professionals  to  shame. 
Among  the  women.  I  spe- 


8 M*L.,  .-M 


hit  1 


Prix  de  Lausanne  winners  in  the  Royal  Balled  Darcey  Bussell  (left),  Adam  Cooper,  N icola  Searchfield.  Ann 
Vos,  Leanne  Benjamin,  Jane  Bum,  Stuart  Cassidy,  Viviana  Durante,  Deborah  Bull  and  Tetsuya  Kumakai 


dally  admired  the  Czech  con¬ 
testant  Bar  bora  Kohutkova. 
serene  in  her  Raymonda  solo, 
spirited  and  stylish  in  the 
Stairway  to  Paradise  number 
from  Balanchine's  Who 
Canes!?  My  eye  was  also 
caught  by  tall,  beautiful  Nelly 
Beliakaite  from  Lithuania,  ele¬ 
gant  in  her  Sleeping  Beauiy 
solo,  and  surprisingly  follow¬ 
ing  it  with  a  blissfully  comic 
solo  to  music  by  the  American 
avant-gardist.  Meredith 
Monk. 

This  year,  halfway  through, 
the  competition  moved  from 
Switzerland  to  Moscow  and  I 
went  along  to  watch.  Twice 
before  in  the  contest's  23  years 
of  activity  there  have  been 
similar  sidetrips.  designed  to 
reach  new  competitors:  one  to 
New  York,  the  other  to  Japan. 
This  always  complicates  the 
usually  straightforward  proce¬ 
dure.  but  all  the  more  so  in 
present-day  Moscow,  where  to 
say  that  conditions  are  not 
easy  would  be  a  serious 
understatement. 

The  willingness  to  be  help¬ 


ful  is  palpable,  but  bureaucra¬ 
cy  runs  wild  and  the  contrast 
between  rich  and  poor  seems 
comparable  with  Britain.  The 
situation  is  complicated  by  the 
existence  of  two  currencies,  the 
rouble  and  the  L:5  dollar,  with 
two  price  scales  for  many; 
things:  a  seat  ar  the  Bolshoi 
can  cost  ten  times  as  much  to  a 
visitor  as  to  a  local.  The 
Bolshoi  Theatre  is  still  stand¬ 
ing,  but  some  of  its  backstage 
areas  make  Govern  Garden’s 
protestations  of  poor  condi¬ 
tions  ring  hollow. 

This  celebrated  stage  was 
where  the  last  two  rounds  of 
the  Lausanne  competition 
were  held  this  year,  and  if  its 
reputation  —  and  its-  size  — 
were  daunting  for  the  young 
entrants,  they  did  not  let  that 
show.  What  some  of  them  did 
find  unsettling  was  holding 
the  competition  in  two  sec¬ 
tions.  Those  from  Western 
countries  assembled  as  usual 
in  Lausanne  and  went 
through  the  initial  rounds 
there." 

Normally  everything  pro¬ 


ceeds  with  swift  momentum. 
The  first  day  is  spent  attending 
dance  classes,  ballet  and  mod¬ 
em.  to  let  the  contestants  settle 
down  and  get.  used  to  the 
teachers  and  the  studios.  On 
the  second  day  the  jurors,  11 
distinguished  dance  profes¬ 
sionals.  watch  the  ballet  class¬ 
es  and  eliminate  any 
candidates  falling  below  a 
minimum  acceptable  level. 


Next  day.  the  jury 
watches  the  modem 
classes,  then  sees  each 
candidate,  starting  with  die 
youngest,  dance  a  solo  she  or 
he  has  chosen  from  a  set  list  of 
classic  ballets.  The  semi-final¬ 
ists  are  selected  in  this  way.  It 
was  at  this  stage  that  they 
were  flown  to  Moscow,  where 
they  had  to  wait  around  (with 
adrenalin  levels  subsiding  and 
only  limited  rehearsal  time) 
while  the  candidates  from 
Russia.  Japan  and  other  East¬ 
ern  countries  went  through 
their  opening  rounds.  Only 
when  the  Moscow  candidates 
reached  the  semi-final  stage 


did  the  first  batch  ofporu- 
finalists  take  part  agaiq  , 
Now.  at  last,  they  niace 
their  classroom  gear  wjbfull 
costume  and  stage  rakt-up 
and  dance  before  a  fayng 
public.  As  wdl  as  the  asacaJ 
solo,  each  gives  anoter,  in¬ 
tended  to  proWdeaconraslin 
style.  The  judges  thenfaveto 
choose  15  of  the  3f  senf- 
finalists  to  go  on  to  le  naa 
days  final.  Three  fair 
borderline  cases.  Tj  wouki 

S  occupied  mps  of  tbe 
sian.  '  j 
And  so  to  the  final,  ransnet- 
ted  live  on  Eu royvon,  tie 
awarding  of  prizes,  tie  thank¬ 
ing  of  sponsors.  t|?  heart¬ 
break  arid  the  hops.  Hon 
many  stars  of  the  fujre  have  l 
just  seen  in  their  dxils?  No 
Britons  got  througBthis  year 
but,  cm  post  shown  .  sorpe  of 
those  who  did  wH  arrive  in 
British  companies.  f  ■  ■ 
We  owe  a  lot  oie»  than 
cuckoo  clocks  to  tl  Swiss  — 
and  already  the  or?  nsers  are 
hard  at  work  on  ert  year's 
Prix  de  Lausanne. 


Swiss  — 
isersare 
st  years 


Simon  Tait  reports  from  Cardiff  on  an  imaginatively  funded  new  venue  which  opens  tc  ight 


THE  idea  of  turning  a  redundant 
church  into  a  theatre  is  hardly  new. 
There  is  scarcely  a  city  centre  in  Britain 
without  one,  and  the  story  of  St 
Stephen's  in  Cardiff  Bay  has  a  familiar 
ring. 

Opened  in  1986  as  St  Stephen's 
Theatre  Space  by  a  small  theatre 
company.  Moving  Being,  it  was  mod¬ 
estly  successful  in  filling  about  half  of 
its  100  seats  during  its  three-month 
seasons.  Then  it  was  hit  by  recession, 
and  its  owners  were  unable  to  handle 
the  costs  of  running  a  theatre  company 
and  a  building  —  another  familiar 
story. 

But  the  familiarity  ends  there.  The 
theatre,  now  called  The  Point,  opens 
again  today  as  arguably  the  most 
important  development  for  new  Welsh 
theatre  and  writing,  and  with  financial 
security. 

“Welsh  stage-writing  in  English  has 
been  stifled  for  the  lack  of  outlets,”  says 
Giily  Adams,  artistic  director  of  the 
Made  in  Wales  Stage  Company,  which 
opens  a  ten-week  season  to  inaugurate 


Graphic  picture  of  a 
successful  partnership 


The  Point  “  A  lot  of  good  Welsh  writers 
felt  closed  out  and  drifted  away  to 
television.  The  Point  is  incredibly 
important  for  the  new  generation  that's 
breaking  through." 

Die  Edwards  is  a  member  of  that 
new  generation,  and  he  says  it  has 
been  easier  to  get  his  work  produced  in 
Glasgow  than  in  Wales.  His  Utah 
Blue,  a  surreal  piece  about  the  murder¬ 
er  Gary  Gilmore,  is  The  Point’s 
opening  production. 

The  second  production  in  the  season 
will  be  a  play  by  Lucinda  Coxon  about 
a  Welsh  woman  travelling  as  a  man  to 
Nova  Scotia  in  the  1920s.  which  Adams 
is  directing  herself.  It  is  called,  appro¬ 
priately.  Waiting  at  the  Waterside,  for 
The  Point  stands  m  the  spectral 


shadow  of  the  Cardiff  Bay  Opera 
House  and  is  the  first  new  artistic 
enterprise  in  the  renascent  Tiger  Bay 
dockside  area.  It  has  come  about 
almost  by  acridenL 

Next  door  is  a  company  of  graphic 
designers.  Design  Stage;  led  by  Steve 
Allison,  which  18  months  ago  decided 
to  expand  into  a  larger  building.  The 
theatre  company  was  in  financial 
trouble,  and  Allison  offered  to  buy  the 
theatre.  His  wife  and  partner  is 
Maggie  Russell,  a  theatre  producer. 
She  persuaded  him  to  abandon  the 
original  plan  of  having  printing  ma¬ 
chines  in  the  main  body  of  the  church 
and  to  refit  it  as  a  theatre. 

“It  was  the  perfect  opportunity  to 
bring  business  and  the  arts  together," 


she  says.  “Design  Stage  uld  split 
the  running  costs  of  the  bi  ting  with 
the  theatre,  and  we  wouk  t  require 
revenue  support  to  keep  1 1  building 
open." 

The  refurbishment  has  jscued  a 
Grade  II  listed  church,  bin  t  century 
ago  as  the  Dockside  arch  and 
boasting  two  William  Metis  win¬ 
dows.  The  project  is  costing425,000, 
some  of  which  has  come  ran  the 
Cardiff  Bay  Development  Corpora¬ 
tion.  with  a  small  amtribujn  from 
the  Inner  Harbour  Partrvship,  a 
group  of  potential  tourist  auctions  in 
the  bay  which  have  banded  tjether  to 
support  each  other. 

Marion  Davies,  the  corjration’s 
director  of  arts  and  tourism,  escribes 
their  involvement  as  inwai  invest¬ 
ment  “The  Point  is  the  first  lopen  as 
a  new  attraction,  and  we  seit  as  the 
beginning  of  Cardiff's  new  cultural 
quarter.  It  is  that  important 

•  Utah  Blue  by  Die  Edwards  ops  tonight 
at  The  Point,  West  Bute  Stn,  Cardiff 
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ARTS  39 


the  TIMES  WEDNESDAY  FEBRUARY  22  1995 _ 

^HpATRE.  Field  Day  fights  back  in  Londonderry;  a  West  End  outing  for  Noel  Coward;  Scottish  mooncalf  among  Australian  tigers 


looking 
a|  bit  pale. 
Uncle 


JOHN  HAYNES 


f  ■  J  he  Prudential  Arts 
Q  Award  given  to  field 
|  Day  Theatre  Com- 
f.Pany  in  1992  hon¬ 
oured  its  12  years  as  a 
produi  :r  of  new  Irish  drama 
and  a  ammitinent  to  touring, 
on  bo  i  sides  of  the  border, 
that  xjk  the  company  to 
venuej  where  professional 
dram  seldom  reached.  Imm¬ 
ediate  y  after  receiving  the 
awan  field  Day  declined 
from  ts  high  noon  to  sudden 
nighmli.  A  rehearsed  reading 
was  as  far  as  the  funding 
woulj  stretch  that  year,  and  in 
1993  Stephen  Rea  (co-founder 
of  tte  company  with  Brian 
Frie|  concentrated  on  his  film 
carejr  —  most  notably  in  The 
Crymg  Game. 

Tfelve  months  ago  Friel 
resitned  from  the  board  and 
Fiell  Day  looked  set  perma- 
Jlv  for  the  dark.  But  the 
(has  risen  again.  Rea  has 
time  off  from  Holly- 
i.  and  Chekhov,  the  most 
of  foreign  writers,  is  the 
ing  choice  of  Field  Days 
K  day. 

The  company  took  the  risk 
ofmviting  the  press  to  the  first 
ptrformance  of  Frank  Mc- 
Giinness's  Lrished  version,  in 
Fter  Gill’s  production,  with 
Ra  —  shoulders  drooping, 
e;  session  hang-dog  —  in  the 
tile  role.  There  have  been  no 
pjeviews.  nor  a  preliminary 
tdir.  The  tour  begins  next 
w^ek,  and  as  the  production 
moves  or  its  way  to  Dublin, 
Cdrk,  Trilee  and  ten  other 
Irfch  venues,  finishing  at 
London's  Tricycle  in  April,  it 
may  become  What  it  has  yet  to 


Unde  Vanya 
Guildhall,  Derry 


be:  deeper  and.  paradoxically, 
lighter. 

At  the  moment,  this  is  an 
excessively  dry  production. 
Gill  has  introduced  severe 
emotional  restraints  into  the 
play  precisely  ■  where  the  re¬ 
verse  is  wanted,  in  the  playing 
of  Vanya  and  Elena,  the 
beautiful  young  second  wife  of 
Sonya’s  father,  whose  stay  at 
the  family  estate  provokes 
such  agitation  and  despair. 

Kim  Thomson  opens  with 
over-deliberate  enunciation, 
and  though  this  could  serve  as 
the  means  for  conveying  her 
indolence,  it  comes  wirh  a 
stiffness  that,  among  other 
disadvantages,  makes  it  hard 
to  appreciate  that  she  is  cast¬ 
ing  a  spell  over  Vanya  and  Dr 
Astrov. 

The  map-reading  scene  be¬ 
tween  her  and  Enda  Oates's 
Astrov  can  be  considered  fa¬ 
natical  and  unfeeling  —  the 
lines  will  support  this  —  but  to 
do  so  is  to  take  the  palest  view 
of  him. 

But  then  the  production 
takes  a  pale  view  of  everyone. 
They  are  emphatically  an  irri¬ 
table  lot  and  seldom  allow  us 
to  find  their  complaints  also 
comical.  Actors  who  play 
Vanya  can  suggest,  through 
tone  of  voice,  the  pain  and  die 
absurdity  of  his  late-found 
attempts  to  haul  his  life  into 
something  meaningful.  Rea  is 
finally  moving  in  his  Act  IV 
grief,  and  he  has  a  funny 


Stephen  Rea  (standing)  in  the  title  role  of  Frank  McGuinness’s  version  of  Uncle  Vanya:  Field  Day’s  production  is  too  dry  and  places  too  many  restraints  on  the  emotional  content 


moment  when,  asking  his 
censorious  mother  for  advice, 
he  covers  her  mouth  to  stop 
her  giving  any.  But  between 
his  own  censorious  attacks  on 
the  hated  brother-in-law.  he 
relapses  into  a  crestfallen  pos¬ 
ture  that  often  consigns  him  to 
the  periphery  of  our  attention. 

Trie  comedy  of  his  entrance 


with  a  bouquet  at  exactly  the 
wrong  moment  is  lost,  and 
while  it  is  an  interesting  notion 
to  show  triumphant  relief  at 
twice  failing  to  shoot 
Serebryakov  (well  played  by 
Denys  Hawthorne),  this  re¬ 
sponse  is  not  integrated  into 
his  previous  or  subsequent 
behaviour. 


McGuinness’s  text  intro¬ 
duces  pleasing  colloquialisms 
—  Astrov  says.  “Look  at  these 
boys."  pointing  to  his  mous¬ 
taches  —  and  I  suppose  it  is  all 
right  to  make  Vanya  follow.  “I 
know  there’s  no  chance."  — 
addressed  to  Elena  —  with  a 
hopeful  “Next  to  no  chance?", 
though  I  do  not  find  the 


equivalent  of  this  delusion  in 
other  versions.  But  he  and  GQl 
have  little  patience  with  scenes 
designed  to  show  the  snail-like 
passing  of  time.  The  first  and 
last  acts  end  abruptly,  al¬ 
though  this  may  be  because 
the  actor  playing  Telyegin  (P. 
G.  Stephens)  is  reluctant  to 
play  his  guitar. 


The  action  is  played  against 
a  frieze  of  unstained  planks  of 
wood,  above  three  blank  open¬ 
ings  in  a  green  wall,  while  the 
floor  is  another  oblong  of 
planks,  islanded  in  bark  chips. 
The  men  and  the  older  women 
move  silently  on  this,  but  not 
the  younger  couple,  and  my 
lingering  impression  of  this 


production  is  likely  to  be  the 
sound  of  Elena  and  Sonya 
(Zara  Turner,  touchingly  fool¬ 
ish)  click-clock-clacking 
around  each  other  on  what, 
invisible  beneath  their  long 
skirts,  must  surely  be  high- 
heeled  dogs. 

Jeremy  Kingston 


GALLERIES:  Somerset  Maugham’s  collection  of  theatrical  paintings 


Actors 
in  face 
iaint 


A  ter  an  ill-feted  sojourn 
i  the  National  The- 
itre,  to  which  it  was 
originily  bequeathed.  W. 
Somer  et  Maugham's  collec¬ 
tion  ol  heatrical  paintings  — 
some  80  oils  and  water¬ 
colour  —  has  arrived  at  the 
Theatr  Museum  (OJ71-&36 
7891)  -  a  stone's  throw  from 
Drury  Lane  and  Covent 
Garde  where  the  players 
plied  tl  fir  trade  in  the  golden 
age  of  ritish  theatre. 

And  t  is  where  the  artists, 
preyin  on  the  vanity  of  the 
actors,  set  up  their  studios. 
Samue  De  Wilde,  one  of  the 
paintes  best  represented 
here,  a  in  ted  hundreds  erf 
actors  t  his  Covent  Garden 
office  tire  1790s.  charging 
two  gu  teas  for  a  watercolour 
and  u[  to  12  for  an  oil. 

The  pictures  are  mostly 
studio  ortraits.  with  a  back¬ 
ground  painted  in  after¬ 
wards.  bands  Hayman’s 
picturefofparrick  as  Richard 
III  ha4  hin  standing  astride 
his  fallenlhorse  with  rolling 
fields  be!  ind  him  full  of 
battling  sldiers.  The  artists 
dearly  let  heir  fancies  Dy  as 
much  as  t  e  actors  (the  great 
Garrick,  f  r  example,  played 
Hamlet  w  aring  a  wig  with  a 
cord  atiai  led,  so  as  to  have 
his  hair  nand  on  end  at 
moments  f  high  intensity). 

If  the  C  rorgian  age  was  a 
golden  on  for  actors,  it  was  a 
rotten  oi?  for  plays.  Old 
Restoratii  i  comedies  such  as 
Vanbrug]  s  The  Provoked 
Wife  wet  standard  fare  and 
one  has  o  sympathise  with 
Garrick.  J  who  rewrote  the 
play  to  J  give  himself  the 
opportunity  to  wear  a  dress 
and  declare.  “I  am  Bonducca, 
Queen  athe  Welshmen,  and 


Zoffany’s  1768  portrait  of  Charles  Macklin  as  Shylock  in  The  Merchant  of  Venice 


y 

.  *'  / 

'X- 


with  a  pedigree  as  long  as  a 
leek."  Johan  Zoffany  shows 
him  in  full  drag,  raising  a 
cudgel  at  cowering  onlookers. 

Even  Shakespeare  was 
most  often  enjoyed  through 
the  barbarous  adaptations  of 
Colley  Cibber.  All  four  of  the 
Richard  Ills  on  show  — 
respectively  Garrick's.  Ban¬ 
nister's.  Cooke’s  and  Ed¬ 
mund  Kean’s  —  were  painted 
for  the  Cibber  version,  and 


the  comparisons  offered  by 
the  four  pictures  bring  a 
difficult  question  to  light.  The 
picture  of  Kean  is  of  a 
familiar  Richard,  sinister, 
deadly  and  apparently  par¬ 
tially  crippled:  the  picrun  of 
George  Frederick  Cooke  is  of 
a  fat,  jaded  poseur  in  Elizabe¬ 
than  costume.  Does  this 
mean  Kean's  Richard  was 
better,  or  merely  that  Cooke's 
portrait  painter  was  worse? 


Rare  examples  —  Macklin 
as  Shylock,  Davidge  as  Mal- 
volio suggest  there  may 
have  been  some  plays  worth 
watching,  but  this  fascinating 
exhibition  generates  one  bi¬ 
zarre  paradox.  If  the  acting 
was  good,  then  shame  on  the 
painters.  If  the  pictures  are 
good  then  the  acting  really 
must  have  been  terrible. 

Giles  Coren 


Coward  models  lingerie 

IIADTI  VU  ITBkBAli 


LETS  hope  Sean  Mathias  never  gets  his 
hands  on  Shaw’s  Pygmalion,  in  his 
present  mood  I  can  see  him  reacting  with 
knowing  cries  of  “ho.  ho"  to  Professor 
Higgins’s  suggestion  that  he.  Colonel 
Pidkering  ana  Eliza  should  live  together 
like  bachelors.  His  production  would  end 
with  all  three,  and  maybe  Mrs  Pearce  too, 
stripped  to  their  Edwardian  flannel  and 
launching  into  something  more  heated 
than  a  lesson  in  phonetics.  That  is,  after 
all,  pretty  well  how  we  leave  Lea  Otto  and 


Design  for  living 
Gielgud 


Gilda  in  Mathias's  revival  of  Coward’s 
Design  for  Living. 

All  right.  Coward  was  gay,  lived  and 
wrote  at  a  time  when  the  mention  of 
homosexuality  was  taboo,  and,  like  WQde 
and  Rattigan,  may  have  expressed  his 
true  feelings  in  dramatic  code.  But  I  am 
sure  he  would  have  objected  to  finding  the 
play’s  subtext  and  his  own  id  as  compre¬ 
hensively  outed  as  they  are  here.  I  suspect 
that,  fastidious  fellow  that  he  was,  he 
would  have  thought  the  production  a  bit 
crude  when  it  was  at  the  Donmar  and  in 
some  ways  cruder  now  it  has  moved, 
substantially  recast  to  the  West  End. 

But  do  the  views  of  even  so  eminent  a 
corpse  matter?  I  was  in  two  minds  about 
this  last  summer,  and  am  now  in  three  or 
four,  for  the  production  has  strengthened 
as  well  as  coarsened  The  treatment  of 
some  supporting  characters  —  a  prissy 
housekeeper,  a  dim  American  —  is  now 
grotesquely  over  the  top.  The  last  scene  is 
outrageously  buffoonish,  in  its  way  as 
philistine  as  the  philistinism  it  mocks.  Bui 
the  woman  in  the  case  seems  more 
sexually  central  than  at  the  Donmar, 
where  you  were  in  little  doubt  that  it  was 
the  men’s  bond  thar  counted  most 


MARILYN  KB4GWHJ. 


Rupert  Graves,  Marcus  D’Amico  and  Rachel  Weisz  in  Design  for  Living 


You  recall  the  plot?  Otto  catches  his  best 
friend  Leo  and  his  beloved  Gilda  in  post- 
coital  disarray  and  storms  off  in  a 
conventional  huff,  leaving  them  to  set  up 
house  together.  Leo  reacts  the  same  way 
when  Otto  makes  a  sexual  return,  only 
this  time  h  is  Gilda  who  goes,  landing  up 
in  a  dull  marriage  with  a  businessman 
called  Ernest  The  logical  solution  to  the 
emotional  algebra  is  a  manage  d  trois:  a 
daring  idea  for  1933  but  one  whose 
details,  especially  its  bisexual  details. 
Coward  leaves  to  the  imagination. 

Mathias  does  pretty  well  all  our 
imagining  for  us.  There  is  a  lot  of 
clambering  and  crawling  on  and  under 
tables  in  underwear.  Marcus  D’Amico, 
who  now  plays  Leo.  celebrates  his  initial 
victory  over  Rupert  Graves,  the  new  Otto, 


by  energetically  humping  Rachel  Weisz's 
Gilda  against  the  wall  of  the  grey-brick 
bunker  that  weirdly  embodies  a  Left  Bank 
flat  The  two  men  fall  into  an  equally 
steamy  clinch  after  their  girlfriend’s 
departure. 

Is  the  answer,  then,  a  production  that 
somehow  combines  high  erotic  voltage 
with  Cowardly  decorum?  This  cast  seems 
fully  capable  of  achieving  that  balance. 
Graves  is  sharp,  bright  and  mercurial; 
D’Amico  blunter,  solider  but  not  less 
sensual;  and  Weisz  as  vivid,  voluptuous 
and  effective  when  it  comes  to  buttering 
her  thighs,  as  at  the  Donmar.  But  that 
would.  I  suspect,  be  too  unadventurous  a 
solution  for  Mathias  in  full  spate. 

Benedict  Nightingale 


3 


UNLIKE  most  musicians 
from  Sene  al  — who  tend  to  be 
either  Wc  )f  or  Manding  — 
Baaba  Mt  1  is  Fularu.  Born  in 
Fouta  Tor ,  on  the  country's 
parched  lorthem  borders 
with  Mali  nd  Mauritania,  he 
has  rem  ned  true  to  the 
essence  f  his  pastoral  ist 
people.  B  aba  Mail's  music, 
which  meted  all  at  a  bursting 
Ftestrval  tall  last  Thursday, 
reflects  a  ;o  the  best  of  the 
Fulani;  it  by  turns,  spright¬ 
ly  and  ininspective,  and  never 
without  i  gently  Islamic 
infusion. 

Most  c  the  music  he  per¬ 
formed  'as  from  Firin’  in 

Fouxo.  h:  most  recent  and 
elegant  bum.  Dressed  in 
loose-cur  antaloons  and 
shirt,  wi  i  an  embroidered 
wrap  dir  wn  over  his  shoul- 


WORLD  MUSIC:  Song  from  Senegal 

African  pastorale 


ders.  Baaba  Maal  glided 
across  the  stage  like  a  splen- 
drous  bird,  swooping  occa¬ 
sionally  as  his  voice  soared  in 
the  daandi  heli  style  which 
the  Fulani  troubadors  have 
patented. 

Sidifd.  the  first  song,  was 
his  loveliest  of  the  evening. 
Dedicated  to  his  bass  player, 
Sidiki  Kouyate  (a  griot.  or 
minstrel-historian),  it  present¬ 
ed  a  difficult  introduction  to 
an  audience  which  had  come 
in  search  of  more  demotic 
entertainment. 

What  followed  was  an  exru- 


Baaba  Maal 

Festival  Hall 


bition  by  Baaba  Maal  and  his 
accomplished  musicians  of  an 
array  of  musical  styles.  A 
sweet-tempered  hymn  to 
Gambia  (in  which  his  griot- 
mentor,  Mansour  Seek,  gave 
company  on  the  guitar) 
evoked  the  bluesy  flavour  of 
Ali  Farka  Toure;  the  plaintive 
Baayo.  from  an  early  album  of 
the  same  name,  was  a  vehicle 
for  the  kora  (the  Manding 


instrument  which  is  a  cross 
between  a  lute  and  a  harp): 
and  in  a  beguiling  "question 
and  answer"  sequence  with 
Mas  samba  Diop  on  the  tam¬ 
tam.  Diop  imitated  in  percus¬ 
sive  “speech"  fragments  of  the 
song. 

Baaba  Maal  also  turned  on 
the  salsa  tap.  in  a  supple 
number  that  was  true  to  his 
country's  own  musical  history. 
Cuban  dance  rhythms  domi¬ 
nated  Dakar’s  dance  halls 
until  the  early  1970s,  and  the 
sinewy  interventions  by  the 
troupe's  saxophonist  would 
not  have  been  out  of  place  at  a 
concert  by  Joe  Arroyo  or  Elio 
Rev£.  Nor  were  they  at  Baaba 
Maal's  court. 

TUNKU 

Varadarajan 


SO.  here  is  this  Scottish  lad 
Danny,  not  yet  IS,  writhing 
around  in  his  sleeping-bag  in 
an  art  gallery  in  Melbourne, 
gasping  out  broken  sentences 
about  having  raped  a  woman 
(his  mother?  her  best  friend?) 
and  left  her  for  dead,  Jeremy 
Kingston  writes.  Gazing  down 
upon  him  from  the  front  row 
of  the  audience  is  an  Aussie 
guy  who  quietly  encourages 
him  to  tell  all.  "How  did  she 
look.  Danny  boy?"  Maybe 
Nick  Ward  has  written  a 
therapy  play.  Directed  it,  too. 

But  when  Danny  emerges 
from  his  bag.  it  has  all  been  a 
hallucination  brought  on  by 
smoking  too  much  grass.  He 
phones  his  mum  and,  yes.  she 
is  fine.  Well,  isn't  that  weird? 
The  tricks  the  mind  plays!  But 
they  are  nothing  compared  to 
the  tricks  Ward  makes  his 
weird  Aussies  play  on  the 
poor,  gormless  Scottie. 

Suave,  creep lly  calm  Mich¬ 
ael.  who  owns  the  gallery, 
brainwashes  the  lad  into 
going  round  the  suburbs  sell¬ 
ing  views  of  the  outbade 
(imported  from  Hong  Kong) 
as  though  they  were  his  own 
work.  Dour,  creepily  psychotic 
Becky  opens  her  legs,  smacks 
him  on  the  face,  feeds  him  a 
cherry,  slashes  him  with  a 
knife.  Danny  is  seriously 


Pom  gets  lost 
in  the  Bush 


alarmed  but 
comes  back 
for  more. 

Her  lover  - 

turns  out  to  be  the  girl  who 
stayed  with  Danny's  family 
back  in  London  and  slid  into 
his  bed  when  he  was  just  14. 
He  is  delighted  to  see  her 


The  Present 
Bush,  W12 


again  but 
she  has 
gone  weird 
-  too,  loiter¬ 
ing  without  intent  up  some 
mental  cul  de  sac.  John 
Lennon  has  just  died,  and 
Michael  and  Becky  torment 
Danny  by  playing  Lennon 

MARILYN  KWBWtlL 


Bremner  and  Cartlidge:  the  mooncalf  manipulated 


records  when  he  least  expects 
it  “What’s  the  matter.  Danny 
boy?"  He  apologises  for  being 
upset  He  is  the  most  apologet¬ 
ic  waif  since  Ophelia  was 
troubled  by  the  Elsinore  miner. 

The  play's  intention  never 
surfaces.  ’TJon't  come  to  Aus¬ 
tralia"  is  one  possibility,  but 
maybe  we  never  thought  of 
going  in  the  first  place.  “Grow 
up,  Potnmie,”  is  another. 
Michael  and  the  women  play 
their  unkind  games  and  Dan¬ 
ny  trots  along  like  a  mooncalf 
trying  to  keep  up  with  the 
tigers. 

Within  the  narrow  range  of 
sanity,  the  cast  perform  ably. 
Cold,  manipulative  power- 
play  from  the  two  Svengalis. 
Christopher  Simon  and 
Katrin  Cartlidge;  zombie  im¬ 
poverishment  from  Susan 
Vidler.  Ewen  Bremner  is  wor¬ 
ried  and  eager  as  the  moon¬ 
calf,  though  the  script  makes 
him  improbably  pliable  after 
one  pull  of  grass,  one  gulp  of 
red  wine. 

What  really  makes  the  play 
such  an  unsatisfactory  piece  of 
theatre  is  the  imbalano:  of  will 
between  the  conflicting  par¬ 
ties:  masterful  self-possession 
on  one  side,  sweet-natured 
submission  on  the  other.  Since 

nothing  happens  to  alter  this  it 

is  hard  to  stay  interested. 


OtiApon 


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Offered  io  lad.  aO  ! 

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«r»  ual  contact  Prank  Mams  i, 
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MOOK fields  eci  Period  ware- 
Mine  lor  convereten.  Floor*  vf 
2,260  Mtt  Mr  sale.  Within  con¬ 
servation  area.  071  7293809  T 

PRICE  REDUCTION  Small  avia 
Random  studio  lu*>  r«m«d  to 
£66,000.  Frank  Kants  A  Co 
CTO  OWtce  0171  COO  7D00 

WAFP1KG  2  Bed.  2  bath  ware- 
bmor  cMiveraon.  ISOO  sq  fl. 
woSnnt  iBfik  071  oeoeaiB 

WAPPMG  1  «>«>,  woretMuae 
ramerdon  Balcony.  River 
Sw,  CI 44k  071  dgogets 

«V1  For  Immediate  sale  -  studio 
flam  from  £40.000.  Wottsway 
States  Tel  071  224  0999  Fu 
on  zz*  i  a _ 


GREENWICH  & 
BLACKHEATH _ 

BtACKHEATH  OUdandlno  * 

bed  u/n  fiat  nr  HeaOi..  amem- 
Ues.  oarage  shr  (hid.  For  onUck 
£74.950.  OBI  4fll  3944. 


MAYFAIR _ 

FARM  ST.  Family  Use  Id  beet 
location.  3  recs.  4  beds.  KB.  sett 

con  flat  Z  terraces.  Odn.  Frw 
noM  aiwd*d  tor.  S79&DOO. 
Home  *  Bon*  071  499  9344 
PROPER  TOTS  OF  MAYFAIR 
Luxury  Residential  Investment 
overlooking  Regent's  Park 
Often  I.R  O.  £4.nm  Rem  gur- 
anfeed  at  BK  per  week  a  months 
tn  advance.  PI  MRS  poll  only  no 
agents  Telephone  Simon  or 
Tony  071  3*5  11*6 


NORTH  OF 
THE  THAMES 


HYDE  PARK  86  2  bed  4ib  fir  rial 
in  p/b  talk  oTfcnft  eomni  gdns. 
£1*6,000  1/n  Westbourne 

cisiov  071  727  8012 _ 

HYDE  PARK,  WS-  2-000  SOU 
s/d  bad  inunod  moral  conver¬ 
sion  -  £300.000.  1  Hamilton 
wood  P1T1-32B  4661 

ISUMTON/Tufnen  Pfc.  Censer, 
vation  Area  Brand  now  2  tied 
Me  viciwiaii  oonveisloji.  I« 
garden,  ceflar.  new  1Z6  yr» 
laa^F.  £109-960. 071  702  12*6. 

UTTLS  VENICE  ■  Triangle  min 
oanScn  mots.  4  tmh.  3  bBttnL  2  I 
SSS.  Share  of  rfKMMM  i 
Jones  PSIMB  0171  266  4821_  I 

UTTLS  VERIICB/Malda  Vale. 
The  oedalU  local  agents. 
^TlunTrSoTi  289  I692_ 

PRIMROSE  HILL  NWI.  A 
i  oeugnuui  early  Victorian  house  1 
situated  In  Qulnl  Crescent  . 
edlacent  K»  PiUiirooe  Hill  P*rk,  I 
4  beds.  2  baths.  3  raws  Eatt* 

;  lent  kitchen.  Bydmi.  F/Hold. 
OIRO  £soo.ooa  Sale  Agent* 
David  Sir  ken  Estate  Agents 
0171  722  3094. _ 

ROYAL  CUES  Wii  snaU  mod  l 
bed  mews  hse  open  ML  gge 
cm  n  £07.600.  OZOg  767474 

URGENTLY  wanMI  One  bed  A 
studio  Flats  fdr  waiting  Buyers, 
atm  Studios  0171  244  7301 


RICHMOND  & 
KINGSTON 


RICHMOND  Enchanting  1801  C. 
lined  del  he*,  6  dble  bed.  *rec. 
2  both.  2/3  acre  waned  garden. 
£650.000  Fh.  081  9*8  9219 


UKFMakrtd.NWUMA 


EATON  GATE  SWI  Interior 
deugned.  one  bed  lop  now  flat 
HUD  In  period  DuUdlns  Si  yr 
tone,  E 160.000. 071  B37  9871. 

EATON  SQUARE  Brlghl  mah  2 
receps.  3  beds.  2  bath.  6  or  20 
^Kae,  Tet/taa  0065  736164 


CHELSEA  & 
KENSINGTON 


ARUNDEL  SONS.  WII. 
Unusual  raised  grnd  nr  1  bed 
flat  with  11***  ceiling  height 
overlooking  comm  gdns  In  «Ti 
p/b  blk.  £96.000.  Share  f/hM 
Wed  bourne  M  071  727  B612 

CHELSEA  SW*  Small  2/3  Bed 
house  with  gorane/garUM;.  PX 
for  larger  hausc/flat  nr.  Sloane 
Sd.  £45QK.  071  622  0479, 

CHELSEA  HOMf SEARCH  CO. 
Will  find  your  central  London 
Property  071  93T  2281 

CHELSEA  CLOISTERS  Apts  for 
ule.  Studio  l  bed  &  Z  bed  from 
£60000  Tet:Q7l  58*  BCT?4. 

CHELSEA  Delightful  Hod  a  Terre 
overlooking  gdns  52  ye  M 
£00.000  0S1  996  2386 

BE  VEKE  GDNS  Pwittw.  3 
receps.  3  beds,  comer v.  Ter¬ 
race.  roof  gdn.  £666.000. 
Home  *  Sons  071  499  93*a. 

EARLS  COURT.  Nr  lube.  1  bed 
grnd  fir.  gdn.  avail  end  Feb. 
caoopw.  Tel-  081  968  0426 

KENSINGTON  W8.  Fuel  floor 
period  mvenlon  2  bedrooms, 
large  balcony,  gas  CM.  2  recep¬ 
tion  areas  C1G6.0CO.  Hoskins 
071  371  6721  AH 

PROPERTY  FIND  -  Property 
Search  Services  Tel  *171  SS4 
9004 


NORTH  OF 
THE  THAMES 


An  ctpjiKlm-  Parsons  Grant 
csule  agcnle  require  a  smart 
aiul  <un.Tv.iui  negotiator  with 
ai  Icm  3  years  Central  London 
cmwmikc.  Please  apply  by  Tax; 

071  731  1101 


SOUTH  OF 
THE  THAMES 


®R®SIEAD 

BARNES 
Just  on  Markatl 

agN  EdumUMn  Mn»y  noma  mNi  i 
77  not  tacbn  gudan.  3 
imMM  Dted  uGmt.  S  good 
bedrooms.  3  HMN, 
cMmomAeBty.  C3MPOO  «h. 
(MSI  332  1222 


BALEARICS 


SPAIN 


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£»  Ssaos/aaaa  081  ”3 


DEVON  & 
CORNWALL 


CYPRUS 


MARCH  1995 

WSIT7ME  EXPERTS 

14  BASlNISmKE 
Rmgu-ay  Htucl 

41b  BISHOP  AUCKLAND 
Old  Mama  Home  Hotel 

5lli  MANCHESTER 

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Cariboo  Hold 

llib  NORM1CH 

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Ulb  HEATHROW 

H Hilda)  Inn  Plaaa 

Hib  CANTERBURY 

SLanm  Hotel 

Ihh  PLYMOI TH 

Nevoid  Hold 

i  C(S  BRISTOL 

HiUon  Naiioul  Hotel 

2j_i  WORCESTER 

““  GRjrd  Hotel 

BEDFORD 

29th  Bedford  Mod  Home  _ 

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wanMH!  IB  an  la  G  pm 

■  REEHOLD  VELAS  ■  APARTUENT5  - 

-  MABOrtT  IES  LAND  -  IAX  HAVER  - 

.-  UWG  TERM  RNAHCE  AUALABLE- . 
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FgMMN  071  22*  3634.  _ 

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imiw.  cm  gaa  sttj.  — 

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flats  Ip  retd  from  raeopem- 
minliwim  6  PWtUiL  Frank 
Hams  *  gh  0171  600  7000 
nannrn  nmi  super  nxK  rum 
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cons  C196QW  0171  794  4953 

BELGRAVIA  .Vary  large 
onrtiFOBhed  1/2  bedroom  nee. 
High  cefHngs.  ovMi  and  5rW®S 
£076pw  AshtaP  MUton-  Ltd 

0171.  286  6S66.  ' _ 

BELGRAVIA  Charming  Itouaa  £ 
receps  3  beds  2 
Kitchen  £g75pw  01672  622B2 


l-.Vij,  ^li*1!  97'*I 


UTTLe  VENICE 
bed  fiat  or  h*e  ffip.C3»  pw 
nai  749  3*06  IT- 

LUXURY  Flat*  ur«Oi«4Iii 
hw3.  W3.  nwb  dnurrouMnm 
,rtwr>  can  japanem  Emgflves 

aS^gQ  6291/071437  9168 

LUXURY  Amwnnwd  a '  «gl  IRL 
EcceWon  So  jggiliMii 
-dig  no  asenta.  C360pw  TcL 
SZih  oire»5  BS6-  - 

I  HUUDA  VALE  Luxup  ngiAhed 

“TLrfrooni  private  new*  House 

I  with  VfW-Jf7. S^6£Shy 
Mill  OH  Ltd  0171  »  666S. 


maNAGLMBNT  onnsDUau. 
recently  transferred  lo  I  wwten 
JSSfrS*  1^  bet  flat  bn 

SSwreea  <«  a  W*»d  N  18. 

0171  73H  0053. 

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tit  1  10  G  bed  IW*  JfWbBff 

»  tr  ZS***™*  O7*  ESdiSS 

PIMUCO  SWI  qmwta  »  A 

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nor  m  the  heart  Of  Punned. 

Vkrtona  6  min  w-lKLIBapw 

Benign*  0171  222  7120 

PUTWEY  WEST  2  bed  ottooenr 
Hun  SL  L*K  K  *  LjNtaf 

decor,  war  fornMted  faOQPw 

AveP  April  •960181  7997077. 

I 

RICHMOND  Flat  with  Sdbl  Us. 
river  dee.  un.  P»9-CH  me. 
C900PCW1.  081  W  IMA 

RUTLAND  GATE  Gmd  Ir  by  > 

bedrm.  ensutte  bathrm  Mudy. 
cbns  decor.  £600  pw  Other 
prop*  avan  and  bcmucds 
needed.  Conad  071  3 g  Oi  u 


vic.lw.  nwiilCnM  *  patio  SOHO,  Wi  •  Enceo  1  bedDM  n 
a/MHna  odn.  sintfc/cmNle.  prime  loc.  FF.  rxc  dec  order, 
w/m.  CI70PM  me  h/w.  CM.  private  roof  tarr.  RNOgw 
Eg  etc.  071  794  314J  0171  3796300. 

BELSGCC  PIC.  NWS  Lor  2  bedrm  I  ' 

■  rut  n>  PB  block,  nr  tube,  in  sen  punuco.  uafltmisqd  Jet 
(urn/unhim.  Oanduuiud  gdns.  fu>or  (lot  2  rooms  W  *  B 
passing  avail.  «39Qpw.  tact.  17OTCT1  0171-664  toa 


V.  071  -436  3700. 


FRANCE 


OXFORDSHIRE 


WAKEBOCSECONVEXSOKS 

FULHAM 

2  Mcendr  cuurnml  gaM. 

1  bed  3M  IT  hvtnt  m  &25JH0 
1  bet  IT  Unas  use  LJZSjW 
Hsehmod  Oaaa  BN>«kM,  Door  b 
edtae  emlam,  nteam,  pbuoa 

udaNxcmam 

071-381-8272 


TO  WHOM 
Ii  May  Concern 


ence.  tn  rctrn  we  1 
salary  and  comwhe 
and  ouaffiy  on 
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aaohani  U.  Lon 

071-736  8933  Wtm 


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■don.  SW9. 


ntmidia  ofler  of  £150,000 
far  the  toehold jsngerty  II 
Rkhoabd  Way,  Wii  We  now 
itmee  any  tnfbcr  oflbn  to 
reach  os  at  mums  no  later 
dun  Wedmday  IR  Man*  *93 
123  Netting  HQOGttc. 
WII  3LBQI71  792  9977 


HERNE  HILL.  SW2.  superb  2nd 
floor  2  bedroom  flat:  guM  tree 
lined  road.  ZOfI  lounge,  tilled 
kitchen,  umuy  area.  60R  com¬ 
munal  garden,  oft  street  peak, 
ma  Close  BR/LJIT  ■  13  ratm 
West  End  /City.  £65.000  for 
gulck  sale  061  674  6577 

MAGICAL  SWI8  via  ibmily  hse 
3  bed.  Ige  gdnl  Ur®  £114,960 
Said  re  mddUft  071  361  3663 


WESTMINSTER 


NORTH  DEVON 
COASTAL  VILLAGE 

Del.  5  bd,  2  bth.  Ige  Inge, 
dm  rm,  W  kit,  Ige  ottractive 
corner*  with  pond,  knmdry, 
dbl  ggn  etc.  CH.  V  Ige 
attractive  pvt  gdm.  Eaify 
divided  to  provide  s/c  Hat. 
E170JW0O.VX.Q. 


WILTSHIRE 


Martnss  or  France.  Saa  view 
Properties:  TN  Q25Z  333227 

I  LAKE  GENEVA.  Evlan  *  The 
Alps.  Your  french  home  bn  the 
heart  or  Europe-  Call  Agencv 
r  ehmann  on  WW  6621 1 

VBUNCE  Farmhae  In  1  acre  Stps 
IO.  so  mm*  beach  £32.000 
Donna  Abroad  071  431  4692 


ITALY 


NR  MARLBOROUGH 

3  bedim  inked  hsadf  home, 
qmet  doao  in  vMoge,  large 
through  towage  with  YtddtN 
fireploce,  Hf  kit  +  otSty  roan, 
garage  &  gardesA  aasy  acoen 

M3/M4ond  R  rotaadon 

OIRO  £87,000 


COVENT  GARDEN.  WC2.  Styl¬ 
ish  2  bed  2  bath  penthouse  with 
roof  terrace  for  sale.  £286.000.  I 
Tel- E  A  Shew  0171  240  2266 

ELECTRONIC  OATES  Secure  3 
bed  house  +  eo  In  courtyard  0<?v 
in  E 1 .  Walk  tt»  CTO  or  5  mbi*  10 
lube  £96000,  071  790  7936 
FULHAM  Radon  Rd.  DsUgMful 
a  bedr  Ilal  A  BsrdeiL  targe 
l  Mlchen.  £1 18.000.  HaskUM 
071-371  6721  A4P- 


OTY& WEST  END 


CITY  EC2  Pied-A-Terre  2  bed 
Moral  on  flat.  New  decor.  £ 72k. 
071  480  68X6. _ 


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MASKELLS 

ONSLOW  GARDENS, 
SW7 

A  nmn  grouid  Boor  onMoimb 
mai  maance  W.  raoapban 
room,  kfedm  2  beckoom  and  2 
bethnxxmtanean  ata^Oi 
Lease  S3  yean  E2f£0M 

DRAYCOTT  AVENUE, 
SW3 

An  ■medHly  deootatad  ltd 

floor  fBHaieUaWhlB  oeei 

uittsM  snoot  euk  toa. 
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bedrooma.2  bathroomHoo*  in 
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CHELA EA  HOMKEMCH  CO 
win  find  you  a  home  to  ram  in 
Central  LcsidOP  cm  937  22B1 
CHELSEA  SW3  Bright  1  had  furn 
3rt  fir  fUL  Just  return  ma  mw 
known.  £I9QlW  0866  613935 

CHELSEA  Cheyne  am  ■  Week  i 
day  Pled  a  Terra.  £96  pw.  1 
Pay /Eve  on  36a  aaai/1982- 
CHISW1CK  nvadde  lawn  bee. 
4  SU  bed.  2  bam*.  W  recap,  t/r 
ML  utu.  QCH.  gdn  oarags.  £490 
pw  07S3  868744/828726 
COVENT  GARDEN.  WC2  -  Set  of 
newly  refurb  1  bed  (UCi  m  CHthd 
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THE  TIMES  WEDNESDAY  FEBRUARY 


221995 


HOMES  41 


Restoration  comedy  or  tragedy? 

ino  on  ^  1/ 


Returning  an  nlri 
house  to  its  full 


glory  can  be  fun. 
but  it  can  all 


go  sadly  wrong. 
Maty  Wilson  on 


how  to  get  it  right 

Teresa  Gorman.  MP.  has 
felt  the  hand  edge  0f  the 
law  in  relation  to  planning 
regulations  as  Thurrock 
council  takes  her  and  her  husband 
to  court  for  restoring  their  Grade  IT 
listed  home.  Whether  she  has  made 
2  good  job  or  not  of  the  work  is  not 
the  point  in  question.  Their  mistake 
was  not  to  ask  permission  to  do  the 
restoration  work  in  the  first  place 
People  thinking  about  buying 
listed  properties  are  often  wary  of 
doing  so  because  of  the  cost  and 
rigorous  stipulations  that  have  to 
be  followed  in  their  upkeep.  The 
more  special  the  house  is.  the  more 
the  regulations  have  to  be  observed 
4  More  than  440.000  buildings  in 
Britain  are  listed,  of  which  6.069 
are  listed  Grade  I.  They  are 
buildings  are  of  exceptional'  inter¬ 
est.  Grade  II*  relates  to  important 
buildings  of  special  interest  and 
Grade  If  to  other  buildings  of 
special  interest. 

The  law  states  that  it  is  a  criminal 
offence  to  cany  out  work  involving 
the  demolition  of  a  listed  building 
or  its  alteration  or  extension  in  any 
manner  that  would  affeyt  hs  char¬ 
acter  as  a  building  of  special 
architectural  or  historic  interest, 
including  works  to  its  interior, 
unless  the  works  are  authorised  by 
Listed  Building  Consent.  The  pen¬ 
alties  are  a  fine  of  £2,000  or  three 
months’ jail  or  both. 

Owners  of  Grade  1  and  Grade  II* 
fisted  property  in  doubt  about  what 
they  can  or  cannot  do  can  seek 
advice  from  the  Environment  De¬ 
partment  or  English  Heritage.  If 
the  property  is  Grade  II.  they  need 
only  contact  their  local  authority. 
Consent  lasts  for  five  years.  It  is 
also  within  a  local  authority's 
power  to  force  an  owner  of  a  listed 
building  to  repair  and  preserve  it. 

On  the  plus  side  grants  are 
available,  although  these  are  not 
that  easy  to  obtain.  There  are  some 
VAT  concessions,  but  they  often 
seem  anomalous.  If  the  work  is  an 
alteration,  it  is  zero-rated;  if  it  is  a 
repair  or  maintenance,  it  is  not  So 
adding  a  swimming  pool  attracts 


The  rotunda,  left  at  Ward  our  Castle  in  Tisbury,  Wiltshire,  designed  by  James  Paine  and  built  in  1770,  and  the  staircase  at  Clare  House  in  Kent  a  Grade  I  listed  PalJadian  house  built  in  1793 


no  VAT  on  the  work,  but  repairing 
the  roof  does. 

New  owners  could  also  contact 
the  Historic  Houses  Association. 
This  is  a  group  of  1,300  historic 
houseowners  in  Britain  concerned 
with  the  preservation  of  privately 
owned  historic  houses.  William 

Proby.  its  chairman,  who _ 

owns  Elton  Hall  in  Peterbor¬ 
ough.  considers  that  many 
historic  houseowners  think 
that  owning  such  a  house  is. 
rather  than  being  a  privilege, 
more  like  enduring  a  prison 
term.  The  association  is  lob¬ 
bying  in  Britain  and  through  _ 

the  European  Union  for  a 
reduced  rate  of  VAT  for  repairing 
and  maintaining  listed  buildings. 

The  great  secret."  Mr  Proby 
says,  "is  to  by  to  get  the  local 
planning  inspector  on  your  side. 
You  do  not  want  to  get  off  on  a 
confrontational  start,  although  it 
might  mean  biting  your  lip.”  Once 


a  decision  has  been  made,  there  is 
no  right  of  appeal.  If  the  property  is 
listed  Grade  11*  or  Grade  I.  you 
need  both  the  local  planning  au¬ 
thority  and  the  inspector  from 
English  Heritage  on  your  side. 

Mr  Proby  says:  “I  am  very  keen 
to  encourage  new  owners.  If  people 


‘I  first  saw  the  building  in 
November  1991. 1  fell 
instantly  in  love  with  it’ 


are  contemplating  buying  a  listed 
house,  they  should  contact  us  right 
at  the  outset  for  advice.  Once  they 
are  a  member,  we  have  a  very 
experienced  technical  adviser 
and  we  run  seminars  on  all 
sorts  of  matters  pertaining  to  the 
restoration  of  listed  houses." 


There  are  many  stories  of  people 
finding  conservation  people  less 
than  helpful,  but  Jonathon  and 
Zara  Colchester,  whose  family  have 
owned  The  New  Place,  in  Ickham. 
near  Canterbury.  Kent,  since 
the  First  World  War.  were  lucky. 

The  15th-century  Grade  11*  listed 
manor  house  has  been  care¬ 
fully  restored.  Mr  Colchester 
says:  “The  basic  frame  was 
fine,  but  we  had  to  put  in  new 
services  and  plug  a  huge  hole 
under  one  of  die  principal 
supports.  Lucidly,  our  build¬ 
ers.  W.W.  Martin  in  Thanet, 

_  had  supplies  of  old  oak  and 

old  flagstones.  The  house  was 
crawling  with  conservation  people, 
bui  they  were  happy  because  we 
were  going  by  the  book.  1  built  up  a 
good  relationship  with  them,  but 
whether  you  end  up  with  people 
who  are  sympathetic  to  what  you 
want  to  do  seems  down  to  chance." 
He  hopes  to  let  or  sell  the  five- 


bedroom  house  with  1.8  acres 
through  John  D.  Wood,  which  has 
it  on  die  marker  for  £350,000. 

Ron  Warren,  of  Berkeley  Homes, 
Kent,  which  is  restoring  the  unusu¬ 
al  and  beautiful  Care  House  in 
East  Mailing.  Kent  a  Grade  1 
listed  Palladian  house  built  in  1793, 

says:  “We  are  working  with  _ 

English  Heritage  on  the  resto¬ 
ration  and  fine  detailing.  We 
intend  to  restore  the  building 
in  every  derail.  Once  English 
Heritage  knew  that  we  were 
involvra.  along  with  WOt- 
shier  Construction,  which 
specialises  in  this  sort  of  _ 
thing,  we  had  few  problems.” 

Wandour  Castle  in  Tisbury.  Wilt¬ 
shire.  is  being  restored  by  Nigel 
Tuersley,  an  ecologist  The  Grade  I 
listed  building  was  designed  by 
James  Paine  and  built  in  1770.  “I 
first  saw  the  building  in  November 
1991  and  fell  instantly  in  love  with 
ft."  Mr  Tuersley  says.  “I  have  never 


had  any  problem  with  English 
Heritage.  We  have  seen  eye  to  eye 
on  everything." 

When  one  "sees  the  quality  of  the 
workmanship  and  materials  Mr 
Tuersley  has  used  it  is  not  surpris¬ 
ing  that  English  Heritage  is  happy 
with  what  he  is  doing.  The  new 


‘I  have  a  simple  aim:  to 
restore  the  fabric  of  the 
house  to  its  original  state’ 


floors  are  made  of  English  oak,  and 
sawn  in  a  special  way  so  they  have 
the  same  grain  as  the  original.  He 
has  restored  all  the  cornice  work 
and  has  even  matched  the  fruit- 
wood  door  knobs. 

When  Mr  Tuersley  bought 
Wardour  Castle,  he  commissioned 


English  Heritage  to  do  extensive 
research  on  the  building  and  he 
now  has  most  of  Paine's  original 
plans  and  also  the  plans  of  the 
gardens,  down  to  the  purchase 
orders  for  the  plants.  “I  have  a 
simple,  pure  principle.”  he  says,  "to 
restore  the  fabric  of  the  house  to  the 

_  true  original  state  achieved  by 

Paine." 

He  has  turned  the  top  floor 
into  three  huge  flats,  keeping 
the  large  door  frames 
throughout  and  having  2 *2  in¬ 
thick  doors  made  to  fit  them 
as  they  used  to  be.  The  flats 

_  are  being  let  for  El  .600  to 

£1.800  a  month  through  John 
D.  Wood's  Hampshire  lettings 
department 

•  Department  of  the  Environment .. 
Heritage  Department .  2  Marsham 
Street.  London  SWIP  3EB;  English 
Heritage,  23  Savile  Row.  London  W1X 
2HE;  Historic  Houses  Association.  2 
Chester  Street.  London  SWIX  7BB. 


JULIAN  HERBERT 


After  3,000  years,  this  is  the  view 

Tumbledown  outbuildings  dominate  this 
farmstead  in  an  attractive  Wiltshire 
landscape.  But  what  can  the  owner  do? 


Huddled  below  the  green 
ramparts  of  the  Pewsey 
Downs  in  Wiltshire,  Can¬ 
nings  Cross  Farm  lies  at  the  heart 
of  a  landscape  filled  with  the 
lingering  resonances  of  an  dent 
settlements.  The  broad  arable  fields 
are  scattered  with  andent  pot¬ 
sherds,  and  in  the  low  winter 
sunlight  the  hillside  is  dark  with 
die  shadows  of  old  tracks  and  Celtic 
fortifications. 

There  has  been  a  farmstead  at  or 
near  Cannings  Cross  for  at  least 
3,000  years  and  it  is  a  matter  of 
sharp  local  debate  that  such  a 
venerable  place  should  be  dominat¬ 
ed  by  a  tumbledown  collection  of 

bams  and  out-  _ 

buildings.  Tim 
Daw,  the  farmer, 
said:  “The  hur¬ 
ricane  knocked 
them  about  a  bit. 

The  problem  is  that 
jio  modem  use  can 
roe  found  for  the 
bams.  They  were 
built  for  threshing 
or  storing  grain 
and  are  too  small  for  tractors.  We 
are  a  commercial  enterprise  nor  a 
barn-preservation  society.  We 
haven't  the  money  to  repair  and 
maintain  buildings  that  we  cant 
use." 

In  1989.  Mr  Daw  began  what 
proved  a  long  and  futile  struggle  to 
find  a  solution  to  his  "blot  on  the 
landscape".  He  decided  to  seek  per¬ 
mission  to  convert  the  two  Victor¬ 
ian  brick-and-slate  stables  and  the 
early  19th-century  threshing  bam 
to  residential  dwellings.  "These  are 
the  main  buildings,  arranged  as  a 
courtyard  at  the  centre  of  the  site." 
he  said.  The  scheme  would  allow 
us  to  have  cleared  away  all  the 
remaining  bams." 


‘I’m  not 
allowed  to 
convert 
the  barns’ 


With  a  farmhouse  and  four 
cottages.  Cannings  Cross  is  more  a 
hamlet  than  a  farm,  but  it  does 
occupy  an  exposed  and  elevated 
position  in  an  area  of  outstanding 
natural  beauty  (AONB)  and  any 
development  would  need  to  be 
aware  of  the  sensitive  setting. 
Mindful  of  these  considerations. 
Mr  Daw  said  he  “talked  to  the 
planners  and  tried  to  find  out  what 
they  wanted,  but  they  werenl 
exactly  forthcoming.  So  we  came 
up  with  a  plan  for  seven  cottage- 
style  houses  similar  to  those  al¬ 
ready  here." 

Kennet  District  Council,  the 
planning  authority,  rejected  this 

_  application  and  the 

two  further  plans 
that  followed  —  a 
1991  application  for 
four  houses  and  the 
present  plan  to  con¬ 
vert  courtyard 
buildings  to  three 
large  houses. 

David  Pearce, 
Mr  Daw’s  plan- 
ning  consultant, 
said  he  was  bemused  by  Kennet 's 
behaviour.  “The  first  and  second 
applications  went  to  appeal  and  the 
inspector  made  no  objection  to  the 
principle  of  residential  use  of  these 
bams,  only  to  the  specific  propos¬ 
als,"  he  said.  “Now,  the  local 
planners  have  rejected  our  latest 
application  on  policy  grounds;  ie, 
that  it  would  have  an  adverse  effect 
on  the  landscape.  If  they  knew  the 
application  couldn't  get  around  the 
policy  on  development  in  the  coun¬ 
tryside.  they  should  have  advised 
us  long  ago." 

Having  read  the  inspectors’  re¬ 
marks  after  the  rejection  of  the  two 
appeals,  Mr  Pearce  thought  he 
knew  what  the  planners  would 


Tim  Daw  says:  “We  haven't  the  money  to  repair  and  maintain  buildings  we  can't  use" 


accept  in  the  thin!  application.  “We 
discussed  every  aspect  with  plan¬ 
ning  officers.  We  reduced  the 
proposed  dwellings  ro  three  io 
avoid  using  a  modem  bam. 

“Because  the  bams  already  had 
plenty  of  openings  we  did  not  need 
to  make  new  apertures  for  win¬ 
dows,  and.  in  revised  plans  submit¬ 
ted  last  November,  we  eliminated 
the  rooflights  to  which  planners 
had  taken  exception. 

“This  conversion  retains  the  form 
of  traditional  agricultural  build¬ 
ings  and  by  removing  the  ugly 
modem  structures  would  restore 
the  original  courtyard  shape.” 

The  local  parish  council  raised 


no  objection  to  the  application  nor 
did  the  highway  authority.  But  the 
response  of  the  Kennet  branch  of 
the  Council  for  the  Protection  of 
Rural  England  was  unequivocal. 
“This  is  an  isolated  and  very 
beautiful  position  of  great  archaeo¬ 
logical  value."  Colonel  John  Wil¬ 
son.  the  chairman,  said.  “We  are 
trying  to  maintain  the  local  scene 
and  these  farm  buildings  are 
essential  to  the  integrity  of  the 
whole  as  a  working  farm. 

“This  conversion  would  result  in 
an  incongruous  and  intrusive  dev¬ 
elopment  of  large  houses  at  the 
exposed  foot  of  the  escarpment.” 

The  application  was  rejected, 


much  to  Mr  Daw’s  disgust  “The 
firsT  I  heard  of  it  was  in  the  local 
press.”  he  said.  “One  moment 
we’re  talking  about  details:  the 
next  we’re  faced  with  another 
appeal. 

“The  planners  will  not  let  me 
convert  the  bams  to  houses  and  1 
cannot  use  them  for  the  farm.  What 
do  they  want  me  io  do  with  them?" 

John  Lee,  Kennet  District  Coun¬ 
cil’s  director  of  planning,  says: 
There  is  a  huge  market  in  second¬ 
hand  materials  and  it  is  preferable 
that  these  bams  should  disappear 
rather  than  survive  as  houses." 

David  Lovtbond 


Never  mind,  count  the  square  footage 


Luxury  m 


Kensington:  the  filea'inaoor  swu.u....^  pool 


NUM  BER  30A  Hyde  Park  Gate  in 
central  London  is  the  ultimate  in 
restrained  beauty.  Arranged  pri¬ 
marily  over  two  upper  floors, 
covering  8.607  sq  ft  the  con¬ 
temporary  property  is  an  open- 
plan  haven  for  lovers  of  art  White 
wall  after  white  wall  awaits  die 
stamp  of  the  owner-to-be,  Morag 
Preston  writes.  The  property's 
proximity  to  Kensington  Gardens, 
and  the  double  garage  as  well  as 
off-streel  parking,  are  discreet  lux¬ 
uries.  The  tiled  indoor  swimming 
pool  and  adjoining  self-contained 
apartment  are  perhaps  a  little  less 
subtle. 


Commissioned  in  the  late  1970s 
under  the  supervision  of  the  archi¬ 
tect  Igael  Yarvitz.  only  the  versatile 
shell  of  the  building  has  remained 
intact  Inside  walls  have  been 
knocked  down,  bedrooms  turned 
into  studies  and  offices  into  exer¬ 
cise  rooms.  Square  footage  Is  now 
more  significant  than  the  number 
of  rooms. 

The  private  lift  and  spiral  stair¬ 
case  are  still  at  the  core  of  the  Lego- 
like  property.  Except  for  the  cream 
carpks  and  maple  floors,  it  is  both 
functional  and  stylish. 

The  square  windows  are  vast 
allowing  light  to  stream  in.  but  the 


one-way  glass  offers  privacy.  Elec¬ 
tronic  blinds  shut  out  what  is  not 
always  a  pleasant  view  of  neigh¬ 
bouring  flats,  and  though  there  is 
no  garden,  terracing  at  the  rear 
overlooks  attractive  grounds. 

The  selTcontained  apartment, 

with  two  bedrooms,  two  bath¬ 
rooms,  kitchen,  study  and  sitting 
room,  would  make  staff  accommo¬ 
dation  for  one. 

Easy  maintenance  and  tight 
security  make  the  property  a 
perfect  "Monday  to  Friday”  house. 
It  is  priced  at  £3,950,000.  and 
available  through  the  joint  agents 
Aylesford  and  Saviils. 


Internet  on  line 
for  house  sales 

Millions  of  potential  buyers  around 


the  world  could  view  your  home 


House  sellers  can  reach 
probably  10  million 
people  worldwide  by 
having  their  property  advertised 
on  the  Internet. 

Nationwide  Property  Selec¬ 
tions  claims  to  be  the  first 
company  in  Britain  to  offer 
sellers  the  chance  to  plug  into  the 
Internet  at  viable  rates/ 

Colour  photographs  and  brief 
details  of  properties  are  entered 
and  can  be  accessed  by  the 
millions  of  subscribers.  Potential 
buyers  can  turn  to  the  property 
file  and  browse  through  pictures 
and  brief  details  of  properties. 
They  can  draw  the  information 
into  their  computer  and  print  it 
out  in  colour  in  their  own  home 
or  office. 

If  they  want  to  know  more, 
they  can  either  use  the  old- 
fashioned  telephone  or  e-mail 
Nationwide’s  computer  system. 
Then  they  can  be  put  in  touch 
with  the  seller. 

Nationwide  Pro  perry  Selec¬ 
tions.  based  in  Ealing,  west 
London,  charges  £88.13  to  regis¬ 
ter  a  property  for  sale  on  its 
British  computer  matching  net¬ 
work.  A  further  £25  secures  four 
weeks’  exposure  on  the  Internet, 
or  clients  can  pay  £75  to  use  the 
Internet  alone  for  a  month. 

The  service  started  on  January 
19  and  in  the  first  week  9,000 
people  accessed  the  file,  prompt¬ 
ing  inquiries  from  buyers 
throughout  Europe.  Hong  Kong 


and  America.  Among  the  230 
properties  on  offer  were  a  four- 
bedroom  detached  modem  fam¬ 
ily  house  at  Wokingham. 
Berkshire,  priced  at  E183.950;  a 
£350.000  detached  Edwardian 
house  in  Bournemouth  split  into 
six  holiday  flats:  and  a  Georgian 
detached  farmhouse  and  three 
acres  on  a  river  at  Kinsale,  Co 
Cork,  at  EIR260.000.  Other  prop¬ 
erties  abroad  are  also  for  sale 
through  the  company. 

Nationwide  Property  Selec¬ 
tions  was  formerly  called  Nat¬ 
ional  Selections,  which  com¬ 
puter-matched  vendors  with 
buyers  for  the  flat  registration 
fee.  The  fee  for  sellers  still  covers 
that  service,  but  buyers  register 
without  charge. 

Computer-Literate  vendors  can 
use  the  Internet  direct,  but  the 
input  cost  is  very  high,  and 
subscriptions  for  access  are  be¬ 
tween  £5  and  £10  a  month. 

Paul  Brooks.  Nationwide’s 
managing  director,  said  it  was 
too  soon  to  known  whether  any 
sales  had  been  achieved  through 
the  Internet.  “Our  job  is  to  put  A 
and  B  together  and  hope  that  a 
swift  sale  follows."  he  said,  “but 
we  are  not  necessarily  told  if  an 
introduction  is  successful." 

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42  LAW 
Court  of  Appeal 


Law  Report  February  22 1995 


When  students  can  receive  income  support 


Chief  Adjudication  Officer 

and  Another  v  Clarke 

Same  v  Fanl 

Before  lord  Justice  GUdewell. 
Lord  Justice  Hirst  and  Lord  Justice 

Hoffmann 

[judgment  February  141 
Students  who.  after  completion  of 
part  of  a  full-time  course,  were 
bermitted  by  their  university  to 
take  a  year  or  other  substantial 
period  out  before  resuming  their 
studies  had  not  abandoned  the 
course  Cor  the  purposes  of  regula¬ 
tion  61  of  Ihe  Income  Support 
(General)  Regulations  (SI  1987  No 
1967). 

They  were  not.  however,  during 
that  period  persons  “attending  a 
full-time  course  of  study  at  an 

educational  establishment"  within 
regulation  61  and  were,  therefore, 
eligible  for  income  support 
The  Court  of  Appeal  so  held  in  a 

reserved  judgment  dismissing  by  a 

majority  (Lord  Justice  Hirst 
dissenting)  an  appeal  by  the  Chief 
Adjudication  Officer  and  the  Sec¬ 
retary  of  State  for  Social  Security 
from  the  order  of  the  Social 
Security  Commissioner  made  on 
September  3,  1993,  holding  that 
during  the  relevant  period  the 
students.  Ms  Rebecca  Louise 
Clarke  and  Ms  Judith  Edel  Faul. 
were  not  students  within  regula¬ 
tion  61.  The  Court  of  Appeal 
granted  the  Chief  Adjudication 
Officer  and  the  secretary  of  state 
leave  io  appeal  to  the  House  of 
Lords. 

Mr  Rabinder  Singh  for  the  Chief 
Adjudication  Officer  and  the  sec¬ 
retary  of  state;  Mr  Richard  Drab¬ 
ble  for  the  students. 


LORD  JUSTICE  HOFFMANN 
said  that  the  question  was  whether 
a  student  whom  the  university 
permitted  temporarily  to  withdraw 
from  a  course  tor  an  academic  year 
or  other  substantial  period  was 
eligible  for  income  support 
Ms  Clarice  had  commenced  a 


three-year  degree  course  in  Octo¬ 
ber  1989.  At  the  end  of  her  second 


year  the  university  had  approved 
her  request  to  intercalate  the 
academic  year  1991-2-  "intercalate" 
was  a  suitably  Latinate  word 
meaning  to  insert  an  extra  period 
into  the  calendar.  Twas  the  man¬ 
ner  of  the  Jews  (if  the  Year  did  not 
fall  out  right)  to  intercalate  a 
Month,  and  so  to  have,  as  it  were, 
two  Februaiys"  (JSelden's  Table 
Talk  I654J. 

Ms  Faul  had  begun  ber  three- 
year  degree  course  at  the  same 
time  as  Ms  Clarke.  During  die 
Michaelmas  term  of  1991  she  had 
had  the  misfortune  to  fall  31.  The 
university  had  allowed  her  to 
intercalate  the  remaining  two 
terms  of  1991-2  with  a  view  to 
resuming  the  course  in  October 
1992. 

It  was  a  condition  of  entitlement 
to  income  support  chat,  subject  to 
certain  exceptions,  the  claimant 
should  be  available  for  and  ac¬ 
tually  seeking  employment.  Ms 
Clarke  had  satisfied  that  require¬ 
ment.  Ms  Faul  had  not  done  so, 
but  she  fell  within  an  exception. 

On  the  other  hand,  both  Ms 
Clarke's  actual  availability  and  Ms 
Paul’s  excuse  were  overridden  by 
regulation  10fl)(h),  which  said  that 
a  claimant  should  not  be  treated  as 
available  far  employment  if  he  was 
"a  student  during  the  period  of 
study".  The  question  was  whether 
during  their  intercalated  periods 
Ms  Clarke  and  Ms  Faul  had  been 
students  during  the  period  of 
study.  * 

Both  “student"  and  “period  of 
study"  were  defined  in  regulation 
2.  "ftriod  of  study"  meant  “Ihe 
period  beginning  with  the  start  of 
[he  course  of  study  and  ending 
with  the  last  day  of  the  course  or 
such  earlier  dale  as  the  student 
abandons  it  or  is  dismissed  from 
ft..." 

“Student"  had  the  meaning  pre¬ 
scribed  in  regulation  61:  "...  a 
person . . .  who  is  attending  a  full¬ 
time  course  of  study  at  an  educa¬ 
tional  establishment  and  for  the 
purposes  of  this  definition  —  (a)  a 
person  who  has  started  on  such  a 


course  shall  be  treated  as  attend¬ 
ing  it  throughout  any  period  of 
term  or  vacation  within  it.  until  the 
last  day  of  the  course  or  such 
earlier  date  as  he  abandons  it  or  is 
dismissed  from  it" 

The  commissioner  had  held  that 
during  the  relevant  period  Ms 
Clarke  and  Ms  Fhul  were  not 
students  within  that  definition. 

They  not  within  the  extended 
definition  of  “attending"  in 
subparagraph  (a)  because  m  his 
view  they  had  “abandoned"  the 
course  during  their  intercalating 
periods. 

The  Chief  Adjudication  Officer 
appealed  on  die  ground  that 
“abandon"  meant  to  give  up  fi¬ 
nally.  He  said  that  a  course  which 
couid  be  resumed  after  a  year  had 
not  been  abandoned. 

His  Lordship  readily  accepted 
that  “abandon"  might  legitimately 
be  used  in  senses  which  were  not 
final.  But  he  was  quite  satisfied 
that  it  could  not  have  that  meaning 
in  the  definition  of  “student"  in 
regulation  61. 

The  con  tea  placed  the  word  in 
conjunction  with  two  other  events 
which  were  undoubtedly  final, 
namely  the  end  of  the  course  and 
the  students  dismissal  from  it  On 
that  point,  therefore,  the  Chief 
Adjudication  Officer  was.  in  his 
Lordship's  judgment,  correct 

Mr  Drabble  had  taken  a  dif¬ 
ferent  point  by  way  of  respondent's 
notice.  He  had  said  that 
subparagraph  (a)  of  the  definition 
of  “student"  in  regulation  61  did 
not  say,  as  it  might  have  dime,  that 
a  student  who  had  started  on  a 
course  should  be  treated  as  attend¬ 
ing  it  throughout  the  period  of 
siudy  as  defined  in  regulation  2. 

Instead,  the  student  who  had 
started  an  the  course  should  be 
treated  as  attending  “through our 
onv  period  of  term  or  vacation 
within  it  until  the  last  day  of  the 
course  or  such  earlier  date  as  he 
abandons  it  or  is  dismissed  from 
it"  {his  Lordship'S  emphasis). 

Mr  Drabble  said  that  if  the 
definition  meant  what  the  Chief 


Adjudication  Officer  said,  the 
italicised  words  might  as  well  have 
been  left  oul  Therefore,  said  Mr 
Drabble,  they  bad  necessarily 
been  intended  to  impose  an  addi¬ 
tional  requirement 

The  student  was  treated  as 
attending  the  course  during  such 
times  as  (a]  tell  after  he  had  started 
and  before  it  ended  or  he  aban¬ 
doned  or  was  dismissed  from  it 
and  (b)  were  periods  of  term  or 
vacation  within  it.  Counsel  said 
that  the  intercalated  periods  sat¬ 
isfied  (a)  but  not  (b).  One  could  not 
sensibly  have  “periods  of  term  or 
vacation  within  the  course"  when 
the  students  were  not  attending  the 
course  at  all. 

The  definition  was  by  no  means 
clear  Mr  Drabble  was  necessarily 
right  in  saying  that  on  die  Chief 
Adjudication  Officers  construc¬ 
tion.  the  italicised  words  were 
surplusage. 

Mr  Rabinder  Singh  said  that  the 
words  merely  emphasised  that  the 
student  was  deemed  to  be  attend¬ 
ing  even  when  he  was  on  vacation. 

In  his  Lordship's  judgment  both 
Mr  Drabble*  construction  and 
that  of  Mr  Rabinder  Singh  were 
possible.  In  order  to  choose  which 
was  correct  it  was  necessary  to 
examine  the  purpose  for  which  the 
definition  had  been  constructed. 

Until  1986  students  actually 
available  for  work  had  been  able  to 
claim  unemployment  benefit  if 
they  had  signed  on  as  available  for 
work  during  the  vacations. 

The  Education  (Student  Loans) 
Ad  1990  enabled  students  to  obtain 
loans  in  addition  to  awards  and 
grants.  One  of  the  purposes  of  the 
Act  was  to  enable  students,  by  a 
combination  of  awards  and  tofKip 
loans,  to  support  themselves 
throughout  the  calendar  year. 
Thai  made  it  possible  to  exclude 
most  students  from  social  security 
benefits  altogether. 

One  would  therefore  expect  that 
a  student's  exclusion  from  social 
security  benefits  would  be  mir¬ 
rored  by  his  entitlement  to  an 
education  award  and  a  student 


loan.  Otherwise  there  would  be  an 
anomalous  dass  of  people  who  for 
no  obvious  reason  were  left  to 
destitution  without  state  support  of 
any  kind. 

In  his  Lordship's  judgment  Mr 
Drebble's  construction  would  ac¬ 
cord  with  the  purpose  of  the  1990 
amendments  and  Mr  Rabinder 
Singh's  would  noL 

If  the  words  "throughout  any 
period  of  term  qr  vacation  within 
il"  were  given  the  effect  for  which 
Mr  Drabble  contended,  the  claim¬ 
ant  was  a  "student "  for  the 
purposes  of  the  regulations  while 
he  was  attending  the  course  and  he 
was  deemed  to  attend  the  course 
not  only  during  term  rime  but  also 
during  any  times  which  could  be 
described  as  periods  of  vacation 
within  the  course. 

Those  were  precisely  the  rimes 
for  which,  under  the  awards  and 
loans  system,  he  would  be  entitled 
to  support.  On  the  other  hand  he 
was  not  a  “student"  when  his 
attendance  at  the  course  had  been 
suspended  by  an  intercalated 
period. 

in  conclusion,  what  counted  as 
■’vacation”  for  the  purposes  of  the 
regulations  was  a  matter  of  sub¬ 
stance  rather  than  the  name  which 
the  university  chose  to  give  it. 

Universities  should  not  be  en¬ 
couraged  by  the  court's  decision  to 
think  that  they  couid  assist  their 
students  to  raid  the  Exchequer  by 
allowing  them  to  “intercalate"  the 
months  between  June  and  October 
in  each  year. 


LORD  JUSTICE  HIRST  agreed 
that  “abandonment"  in  regulation 
61  should  be  construed  in  its 
context  as  connoting  permanent 
abandonment,  for  the  reasons 
given  by  Lord  Justice  Hoffmann, 
but  dissented  as  to  the  construction 
of  the  definition  as  a  whole. 


Lord  Justice  GiideweU  con¬ 
curred  in  the  result  reached  by 
Lord  Justice  Hoffmann. 

Solicitors:  Solicitor.  Department 
of  Social  Security:  J.  A.  Rosser  & 
Co.  King's  Lynn. 


Distinguishing  employees  and  independent  contractors 


Lane  v  Shire  Roofing  Co 
(Oxford)  Ltd 

Before  Lord  Justice  Nourse,  Lord 
Justice  Henry  and  Lord  Justice 
Auld 

(Judgment  February  16] 

The  present  employment  situation 
where  more  people  were  self- 
employed  and  good  reasons  ex¬ 
isted  for  both  workers  and 
employers  avoiding  the  “em¬ 
ployee"  label,  gave  rise  to  good 
policy  reasons  in  the  safety  at  work 
field  to  ensure  that  the  law 
properly  discriminated  between 
employees  and  independent 
contractors. 

The  Court  of  Appeal  so  stated 
when  allowing  an  appeal  by  the 
plaintiff.  Paul  William  Lane,  from 
Judge  Hutton,  who.  sitting  as  a 
deputy  High  Court  judge  on  May 
26, 1993.  had  held  that  the  defen¬ 
dants.  the  Shire  Roofing  Co  (Ox¬ 
ford]  Ltd.  were  not  liable  for 
injuries  sustained  by  the  plaintiff 


while  carrying  out  work  for  them 
on  a  roof  at  Sonning  Common 
because  he  was  at  the  time 
working  as  an  independent 
contractor. 

Concluding  that  the  defendants 
were  in  breach  of  statutory  duty 
but  finding  contributory  neg¬ 
ligence  by  the  plaintiff,  the  Court  of 
Appeal  ordered  the  defendants  to 
pay  damaages  for  personal  inju¬ 
ries  to  the  plaintiff  of  E102iffl. 

Mr  Thomas  Saunt  for  Mr  Lane; 
Mr  Julian  Matthews  for  Shire 
Roofing. 

LORD  JUSTICE  HENRY  said 
that  one  of  the  questions  that  arose 
in  the  case  were  whether  the 
defendants  owed  to  the  plaintiff  the 
common  law  or  statutory  duty 
owed  by  an  employer  to  his 
employees,  or  whether  die  plaintiff 
when  doing  die  job  was  acting  as 
an  independent  contractor  respon¬ 
sible  for  his  own  safety. 

When  it  came  to  die  question  of 
safety  at  work,  there  was  a  real 


public  interest  in  recognising  the 
empfoyer/empfoyee  relationship 
when  it  existed,  because  of  the 
responsibilities  that  that  the  com¬ 
mon  law  and  statutes  such  as  the 
Employers'  Liability  (Compulsory 
Insurance)  Act  1969  placed  on  the 
employer.  The  judge  here  found 
that  die  plaintiff  was  not  an 
employee  and  was  responsible  for 
his  own  safety. 

The  principle  authorities  that  the 
Court  had  been  referred  to  were 
Ready  Mixed  Concrete  (South 
East)  Ltd  v  Minister  of  Pensions 
and  National  Insurance  ([1968]  2 
QB  497).  Market  Investigations 
Ltd  v  Minister  of  Social  Security 
Q1960)  2  QB  173)  and  Ferguson  v 
John  Dawson  and  Partners  (Con¬ 
tractors)  Ltd  fl!976|  I  WLR  1213). 

Two  general  remarks  should  be 
made.  The  overall  employment 
background  was  very  different 
today  from  when  those  cases  were 
decided.  First;  for  a  variety  of 
reasons  there  were  more  self- 


employed  and  fewer  in  employ¬ 
ment.  There  was  a  greater  flexibil¬ 
ity  in  employment,  with  more 
temporary  and  shared  employ¬ 
ment.  Sound,  there  were  per¬ 
ceived  advantages  for  botb 
workmen  and  employer  in  the 
relationship  between  them  being 
that  of  independent  contractor. 
From  the  workman's  point  of  view, 
being  self-employed  brought  him 
into  a  more  benevolent  and  less 
prompt  tax  regime. 

From  the  employer's  point  of 
view,  the  protection  of  employee's 
rights  contained  in  the  employ¬ 
ment  protection  legislation  of  the 
1970s  brought  certain  perceived 
disincentives  to  the  employer  to 
take  on  lull-time  long-term 
employees. 

There  were  reasons  on  both 
sides  to  avoid  the  employee  labeL 
But  there  were  good  policy  reasons 
in  the  safety  at  work  field  to  ensure 
that  the  law  property  discrimi¬ 
nated  between  employees  and 


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independent  conrraaors.  Many 
factors  had  to  be  taken  into 
account  and  with  different  priority 
being  giren  to  those  factors  certain 
principles  emerged. 

First  the  dement  of  control  was 
important  wtio  laid  down  what 
was  to  be  done,  the  way  in  which  it 
was  io  be  done,  the  means  by 
which  it  was  io  be  done  and  the 
time  when  it  was  lo  be  done?  Who 
provided,  hired  and  fired,  the  team 
by  which  it  was  done,  and  the 
materials,  plant  machinery  and 
tools  used? 

The  control  test  might  not  be 
decisive,  for  instance  in  the  case  of 
skilled  employees  with  discretion 
to  decide  how  their  work  should  be 
done.  In  such  cases  the  question 
was  broadened  to  whose  business 
was  it?  Was  the  workman  carrying 
on  his  own  business,  or  was  he 
carrying  on  his  employer's? 

The  answer  to  that  question 
might  involve  looking  to  see  where 
the  financial  risk  lay,  and  whether 
and  how  far  the  workman  had  an 
opportunity  of  profiting  from 
sound  management  in  the  perfor¬ 
mance  of  his  task. 

Those  questions  had  to  be  asked 
in  the  context  of  who  was  respon¬ 
sible  for  the  overall  safety  of  the 
men  doing  the  work.  Here  the 
defendants  had  agreed  that  they 
were.  That  answer  was  not  de¬ 
cisive,  although  it  might  be  indic¬ 
ative,  because  ultimately  the 
question  was  one  of  law  and  the 
defendants  couid  be  wrong  as  to 
where  the  legal  responsibility  lay. 

In  this  case  the  plaintiff  was  a 
builder/ roofer /carpenter  who  had 
since  19S2  traded  as  a  one-man 
firm.  He  had  obtained  self-em¬ 
ployed  fiscal  status  with  a  right  to 
tax  exemption  certificates.  He  had 
found  work  through  advertise¬ 
ments  and  when  engaged  by 
clients  would  be  responsible  for 
the  estimating  and  buying  of 
materials.  But  that  work  had  dried 
up  and  he  started  working  for 
others. 

The  defendants,  a  newly  estab¬ 
lished  roofing  business,  did  not 
want  to  take  on  employees.  They 
considered  it  prudent  and 
advantageous  to  hire  for  individ¬ 
ual  jobs.  They  had  advertised  for 
moi  to  work  on  a  large  roofing  job 
in  Marlow.  The  plaintiff  was 
employed  by  them  at  the  daily  rate 
of  E45. 

That  job  was  nearly  over  when 
the  defendants'  requested  the 
plaintiff  to  re-roof  the  porch  at 
Sonning  Common.  He  had  visited  , 
the  site  with  a  represent! ve  of  the  i 
defendants  and  had  discussed  1 
what  was  necessary  in  the  way  of 
plant,  ladders  and  scaffolding,  to 
do  the  job. 

It  was  agreed  that  the  defen¬ 
dants  would  pay  the  plaintiff  an 
all-in  fee  for  the  job.  The  plaintiff 
had  taken  all  his  personal  roofing 
and  carpenty  tools  but  had  pro¬ 
vided  no  materials.  He  took  his 
own  ladder.  While  carrying  out  the 
work  he  had  fallen  from  the  ladder 
and  suffered  die  injuries  which 
had  caused  serious  brain  damage. 

The  defendants  rightly  distin¬ 
guished  between  a  Ferguson  v 

Dmvson  situation  where  an  em¬ 
ployer  engaged  men  on  “the  lump" 
to  do  labouring  work,  where  the 
men  were  dearly  employees  what¬ 
ever  their  tax  status,  and  when  a 
specialist  subcontractor  was  em¬ 
ployed  to  perform  some  part  of  a 
general  building  contract.  That 
individual  dearly  would  be  an 
independent  contractor. 

Mr  Matthews  submitted  that  the 
plaintiff  fell  somewhere  in  be¬ 
tween.  That  was  correct  but  this 
case  was  substantially  nearer  “the 
lump”  than  the  specialist  sub¬ 
contractor,  although  the  degree  of 
control  the  defendants  would  use 
would  depend  on  the  need  they  felt 
to  supervise  and  direct  the  plain¬ 
tiff 

The  question  “whose  business 
was  itr  in  relation  to  the  Sonning 
Common  job  could  (mb'  be  an¬ 
swered  by  saying  that  il  was  die 
defendants*  business  and  not  die 
plaintiffs.  They  owed  the  duties  of 
employers  to  the  plaintiff. 

Lord  Justice  Nourse  and  Lord 
Justice  Auld  agreed. 

Solicitors.-  D.  C.  Kaye  &  Co, 
Great  Missenden,  Vizards. 


THE  TIMES  WEDNESDAY  FEBRUARY  j2 1995 

Queen’s  Bench  Divisional  Court 


Justices  heard  one  side 
on  immunity  claim 

.  .  .  .. _ in  aereenient  between  feadinj 


Regina  v  South  Worcester¬ 
shire  Magistrates,  Ex  parte 
LOlcy 

Before  Lord  Justice  Rose  and  Mr 
justice  Pons 
(Judgment  February  17) 

Justices  who  had  heard  an  applica¬ 
tion  by  the  prosecution  in  a 
summary  trial  that  certain  unused 
material  should  not  be  shown  the 
defence  because  it  was  covered  by 
public  interest  immunity  had  a 
discretion  in  the  interests  of  justice 
to  order  that  the  case  be  tried  by  a 
different  bench. 

Where  justices  had  been  shown 
by  the  prosecutor  a  document 
which  the  defence  had  not  seen 
and  had  excluded  the  defendant 
and  his  legal  adviser  from  the 
court  for  20  minutes  while  hearing 
evidence  from  the  police  and 
submissions  from  the  prosecutor, 
they  should  exercise  that  discretion 
to  disqualify  themselves  from  the 
case. 

The  Queen’s  Bench  Divisional 
Court  so  held  allowing  an  applica¬ 
tion  by  Martin  William  Lfiley  for 

judicial  review  of  the  refusal  of 
Droitwich  Justices  on  April  25. 
1994  to  disqualify  themselves  from 
adjudicating  as  a  court  of  sum¬ 
mary  trial  a  charge  of  dishonestly 
receiving  a  clock  alarm  radio. 

Mr  David  Barnard  for  Mr 
Lilley:  Mr  John  McGuimtess  for 
the  justices. 

LORD  JUSTICE  ROSE  said 
that  at  the  applicant’s  summary 
trial  the  Crown  Prosecution  Ser¬ 
vice  had  served  a  schedule  of 
unused  material  one  item  of  which 
was  said  to  be  too  sensitive  to  be 
disclosed  on  the  basis  of  public 
interest  immunity. 

A  brown  envelope  was  handed 
to  the  justices  who  retired  to 
consider  its  contents.  When  they 
returned  the  justices  said  they 
wished  to  hear  testimony  from  the 
investigating  officer  and 
representations  from  the  Crown. 

At  that  stage  the  applicant  and 
his  solicitor  were  excluded  from 
the  court  for  about  20  minutes 
during  which  the  police  officer 
gave  "evidence  either  sworn  or 
unsworn  before  the  justices  and 
the  prosecuting  solicitor  made 
submissions  to  the  court 

At  the  end  of  that  period  the 
applicant  and  his  solicitor  were 
invited  to  rejoin  the  court  and  the 
justices  said  that  the  sensitive 
material  was  immaterial.  The 
applicant's  sotidior  submined  that 
it  was  no  longer  desirable  in  the 
interests  of  justice  for  the  same 
bench  to  adjudicate  given  that 
there  had  to  be  a  submission  that 
the  bench  might  have  been  prej¬ 
udiced  as  a  result  of  what  had 
taken  place  in  the  applicant's 
absence. 

The  Crown  resisted  the  sub¬ 
mission  on  the  basis  that  the 
authorities  on  public  interest 
immunity  indicated .  the  court  of 
trial  should  determine  both  the 
public  Interest  Immunity  issue  and 
such  triable  issues  as  followed. 

The  applicant  replied  that  there 
was  apparently  no  authority  deal¬ 
ing  with  how  courts  of  summary' 
jurisdiction  should  deal  with  the 
problem.  The  justices  acceded  to 
the  applicant's  solicitor's  applica¬ 
tion  that  the  proceedings  should  be 
adjourned  generally  pending 
resolution  of  die  issue. 

His  Lordship  set  oul  the  proce¬ 
dure  for  dealing  in  the  crown  court 
with  applications  for  public  in¬ 
terest  immunity.  Here  the  prin¬ 
ciples  applying  and  the  procedure 
to  be  followed  were  not  in  doubt,  it 
was  the  responsibility  of  the  court 
to  determine  whether  sensitive 
unused  material  should  be  dis¬ 


closed  and  there  was  provision  m 
appropriate  cases  for  the  prosecu¬ 
tion  to  appiyex  parte. 

A  ruling  that  material  should 
not  be  disclosed  was  not  rotal- 
issues  might  emerge  during  tnai 
whereby  the  public  merest  m  non¬ 
disclosure  was  edipsed.  The  pos¬ 
ition  had  to  be  monitored-  There 
was  no  doubt  also  that  ajudgem 
rivfl  proceedings  might  property 
decide  questions  of  immunity  and 
then  proceed  to  try  the  case. 

But  it  had  to  be  borne  in  mind 

rhai  judges,  unlike  lay  magistrates. 

were  lawyers  who  had  had  many 
years  of  training  in  the  art,  if  art  it 
were,  of  excluding  from  their 
consideration  irrelevant  material. 

Magistrates  sitting  as  examin¬ 
ing  justices  had  no  role  ro  play  id 
consideration  of  sensitive  material. 
The  role  of  an  examining  mag¬ 
istrate  was  to  ensure  that  a 
defendant  did  not  stand  trial  in  foe 
crown  court  unless  there  was  a 
prima  fade  case.  The  crown  court 
would  properly  decide  any  public 
interest  immunity  issues. 

Where  admission  of  evidence 
was  in  issue  examining  justices 
had  to  rule  and  had  no  power  to 
delegate  to  another  bench.  It  was 
both  proper  and  generally  de¬ 
sirable  for  the  same  examining 
justices  who  ruled  on  submissions 
as  to  abuse  of  process  to  rule  also 
on  whether  there  was  evidence  to 
go  to  trial.  It  seemed  to  his 
Lordship  that  the  position  of 
justices  conducting  a  summary 
trial  was  at  first  blush  different 
because  they  had  a  fact-finding 
rote  which  the  crown  court  judge 
and  the  examining  justices  did  not 

It  was  common  ground  that  in 
considering  how  justices  conduct¬ 
ing  a  summary  trial  should  dis¬ 
charge  their  role  in  relation  to 
public  interest  immunity  two  lines 
of  authority  had  to  be  considered: 
on  the  one  hand  the  recent  de¬ 
cisions  as  to  crown  court  practice 
and  on  the  other  the  long  line  of 
authorities  stretching  back  50 
vearc  and  further  in  relation  to  the 
need  for  justice  to  be  seen  to  be 
done  in  magistrates  courts.  The 
present  case  appeared  to  be  the 
first  in  which  both  those  lines  of 
authorities  had  been  am  currently 
addressed 

Mr  McGuinness  had  submitted 
that  the  court  was  bound  fry  R  v 
Bromley  Justices.  Ex  parte  Smith 
and  Another  (The  Times  Novem¬ 
ber  &  1994)  to  hold  not  only  (hat  the 
rules  as  to  disclosure  were  the 
same  in  the  magistrates  court  as  in 
the  crown  court  but  also  that  a  like 
procedure  should  be  followed  in 
the  magistrates  court  in  that 
justices  who  had  ruled  that  ma¬ 
terial  was  inadmissible  should 
continue  with  the  hearing. 

In  that  case  the  court  had  been 
concerned  primarily  with  whether 
the  prosecutions  duty  of  disclosure 
in  relation  to  unused  material  in 
summary  trials  was  the  same  as 
that  in  trials  on  indictment.  There 
'  had'  Been  a'  large  measure  of 


agreement  between  leading  coufjf 
se!  as  to  the  appropriate  practice  in 
relation  to  disdosure. 

Lord  Justice  Simon  Brown  had 
endorsed  the  conclusion  that,  du¬ 
nes  of  disclosure  were  ihe  same  in 
both  courts.  What  should  be 
appropriate  practice  in  the  mag. 
lStraKs  court  was  not  m  the 
forefront  of  the  court's  consid¬ 
eration.  However,  it  was  not  dear 
whether  any  argument  had  been 
addressed  to  the  court  about 
whether  the  magistrates  who  lode 
the  derision  on  immunity  should 
continue  to  cry  the  case  and  none  of 
the  authorities  in  relation  to  foe 
appearance  of  justice  in  the  mag¬ 
istrates  court  appeared  to  have 
been  died.  _  j 

There  might  be  a  difference  in 
principle  between  a  voire  dire  or 
ruling  on  admissibility  and  an 
application  regarding  disclosure. 
In  the  former  the  defendant  and 
his  legal  advisers  would  be  present 
throughout  But  a  public  interest 
immunity  application  might  in¬ 
volve  the  tribunal  of  foot  hearing 
evidence  in  the  absence  of  the 
defendant  and  his  legal  advisers. 

The  present  case  .  was 
distinguishable  from  any  situation 
Lord  Justice  Simon  Brown  had  in 
mind  in  R  v  Bromley  Justices. 
Where  justices  having  considered 
the  undisclosed  coo  rents  of  k 
brown  envelope  and  having  a? 
chided  the  defendant  and  his 
solicitor  from  foe  court  far  20 
minutes  during  which  they  heard 
evidence  from  the  investigating 
officer  and  the  Crown  prosecutor, 
a  reasonable  and  four  minded 
person  sitting  in  court  wouU.have 
a  reasonable  suspicion  that  foe 
bon*  might  have  been  prgudfcxd. 

His  Lordship  emphasised  that 
the  present  proceedings  trialed  to 
summary  trial  Different  consid¬ 
eration  might  apply  to  justices 
acting  as  examining  magistrates  in 
committal  proceedings. 

The  court  having  regard  to  the 
authorities  was  not  bound  to  hold 
that  the  question  was  concluded  by 
R  v  Bromley  Justices.  However, 
merely  because  justices  had  ruled 
after  consideration  of  a  public 
interest  immunity  claim  that  ma¬ 
terial  presented  to  them  was 
inadmissible  that  did  not  ct  itself 
confer  on  a  defendant  a  right  to  a 
bearing  before  a  new  bench. 

Whether  or  not  such  a  hearing 
should  be  granted  was  a  matter 
within  foe  magistrates'  discretion 
according  to  the  rireumstances  of 
the  particular  case.  But  in  the 
rireumstances  of  tire  present  case  it 
seemed  to  his  Lordship  that  a 
refusal  by  the  Justices  .who  had 
ruled  on  foe  public  interest  immu¬ 
nity  aspect  to  disqualify  them¬ 
selves  would  be  so  unreasonable 
(hat  no  reasonable  court  could  do 


Mr  Justice  Ptitts  agreed. 
Soliritors:  Kieran  &  Co,  Worces¬ 
ter;  Crown  Prosecution  Servia^, 
Droitwich.  ® 


In  re  S  (a  Minor)  (Parental 
responsibility) 

A  parental  responsibility  order 
granted  under  section  4  of  the 
Children  Act  1989  gave  status  to  a 
father  for  it  carried  duties  and 
responsibilities  as  wdl  as  powers 
and  rights. 

The  Court  of  Appeal  (Lord 
Justice  Butier-Sloss.  Lord  Justice 
Simon  Brown  and  Lord  Justice 
Ward)  so  held  on  February  16 
when  allowing  a  fathers  appeal 
from  the  order  of  Judge  Iteariman 
on  July  15.  1994,  refusing  the 


fathers  application  for  a  parental 
responsibility  order.' 

LORD  JUSTICE  WARD  said 
that  applications  under  section  4 
had  became  a  growth  industry 
bom  out  of  a  misunderstanding 
based  upon  a  failure  in  seeing  that 
the  essence  of  foe  granting  of  a 
parental  responsibility  order  was 
the  grant  of  status.  For  section  4 
applications  it  was  wrong  to 
concentrate  upon  rights,  powers 
and  responsibilities  but  to  con¬ 
centrate  on  foe  status  given  to  a 
father  by  fatherhood. 


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SPORT  43 


Wales  look 
to  future 
with  choice 
of  John 

By  David  Hands,  rugby  correspondent 


WALES  have  made  four 
changes  for  their  five  nations' 
championship  meeting  with 
rampant  Scotland  at  Murray- 
neld  on  March  4.  Three  were 
entirely  predictable;  the 
fourth,  the  bold  selection  of 
Spencer  John,  of  Llanelli,  at 
tight-head  prop,  was  not. 

John.  21  last  October,  is  the 
youngest  front-row  forward  to 
play  for  Wales  since  David 
Young,  of  Swansea,  interrupt¬ 
ed  a  summer  in  Australia  to 
play  in  the  1987  World  Cup. 
Indeed  leu  an  Evans,  the  cap¬ 
tain,  who  wifi  make  his  fiftieth 

appearance  for  Wales  at 
Murrayfield,  yesterday  sug¬ 
gested  that  John  was  out  of  a 
similar  mould  to  Young,  who 
is  now  playing  rugby  league. 

The  young  Llanelli  player,  a 
mechanical  engineering  ap¬ 
prentice,  takes  die  place  occu- 


M  Back  (Bridgend];  i  C  Evans  (UaneUi. 
captainl.  MR  Hall  (Cartfiffj,  N G  Davies 
(Uarein.  W  T  Proctor  (Uanelli):  N  R 
Jenkins  (Pontypridd).  R  N  Jonas  (Swan¬ 
sea):  M  Griffiths  (Canfltf).  G  R  Jenkins 
(Swansea),  S  C  John  (UaneHl).  H  T 
Taylor  (Cardiff).  G  0  UeweByn  (fclaahj, 
D  Jones  (CanJH),  R  G  Colitis  (Ponty¬ 
pridd),  E  W  Lewis  (Carcflff).  Replace¬ 
ments:  W  J  L  Thomas  (Cadjff  THR,  D  W 
Evans  (Treorehv).  R  H  SU  B  Moon 
(Uanelfi),  P  T  Davies  (Uaraill),  H 
VWKam&Jones  (Uaneffl),  R  C  McBryde 
(Uaneffi). 


pied  against  England  last 
Saturday  by  the  suspended 
John  Davies  and  is  preferred 
to  his  dub  colleague,  Huw 
Wflliams-Jones,  and  the  un¬ 
capped  Cardiff  prop.  Lyndon 
Mustoe.  “I  thought  it  was  a 
big  wind-up.”  a  bemused  John 
said.  “I  can't  express  how 
sorry  I  am  for  John  [Davies] 
but  I  intend  to  take  my  chance, 
do  my  country  proud  and 
make  the  position  my  own.” 

John,  the  only  newcomer,  is 
joined  in  the  side  by  Wayne 
Proctor  and  Matthew  Back, 
replacing  the  injured  Nigel 
Walker  and  Anthony  Clement 
at  wing  and  full  back  respec¬ 
tively.  Back  wifi  start  his  first 
international  after  winning 
two  caps  as  a  replacement 

Mike  Hall  reclaims  his 
plaoe  at  centre  from  Mark 
Taylor  and  the  Welsh  Rugby 
Union  are  confident  that  Hall, 
who  will  miss  Cardiff's  league 


BASKETBALL 

NATIONAL  ASSOCIATION  (NBA):  Miami 
103  Ctevatana  96.  Chariottu  115  Chicago 
104.  Datra*  99  Sacramento  93:  Dtando 
152  M*«ai*ee  104;  LA  Lahero  108  Seattle 
105;  Golden  Stale  98  PhtedafoWfl  85. 

CRICKET 


4-84):  Transvaal  256  and  2BW  (M 
Rushmara  70.  J  Cook  54.  T  Shaw  5-fll]. 
Match  diawn.  Bloemfontein:  Western  Prov¬ 
ince  IBB  and  287,  Orange  Free  State  308 
and  188-5  Free  Stale  won  by  ttw  wWraif. 
East  London:  Natal  303  (M  Brayns  58:  B 
Fourie  5-90);  Bdk»  202  (P  KiSWl  60.  M 
57).  Nteacn  dra«v  Pretoria.  Bolmd 
270  (K  Jackson  57.  A  WVOe  54)  aid  85  (Rud 
Bryson  j-23);  Northern  Transvaal  165-7  dec 
(R  Pienaar  66)  and  194-ajAreire  Seymore 
M;  Claude  Henderaon  5-57).  Boland  win  0y 

nerwdei _ 

FOOTBALL 

EUROPEAN  UNDEB-31  CHAMPIOhF 
SHIP:  Group  ftw:  Motto  1  LuKemborag  0  (In 
Goto). 

Monday’s  late  restAs 

TENNENTS  SCOTTISH  CUP:  Fourth 

round:  Hearts  4  Renoere  2  _ 

Revised  qurarar-llna  draw:  Celtic  v  KRmar- 
nocfc,  Raah  v  Andris;  Hearts  v  Ckmoae 
Unfed:  Sienhousanufr  v  HBemton. 

O  Tfes  to  be  played  weekend  ot  March  1 1. 
FA  UMBRO  TROPHY:  Second  round: 
Fambcrough  0  Rushden  and  OamwKte  1 : 
Yecwi  I  Stevenage  1.  (tept^«JBj«on  3 
wefina  0:  VS  Hughy  i  ABrtKSTam  z. 
Revised  «rd-towtd 
Boreham  Wood.  Runcorn  v  HydB.  Gatos- 
head  v  MacctesWd;  Ffajshden  .and  Pto- 
monds  v  Halesowen  Town.  Heston  ” 
KkJdBfrrwwffir.  Yaovi  or  Sieve 
Wotang:  Moracarebe  v  Altrincham: 

Merthyr  Tydfil  . 

tJ  Tvs  to  be  played  March  4. 

DiADORA  LEAGUE:  Premrar  tflvtslon: 
Plrteel  2  WaSon  and  Hersham  5. 
CARLING  NORTH  WEST  COUNTIES 


game  with  PDntypool  on  Sat¬ 
urday.  will  have  recovered 
from  rib  damage. 

The  selection  of  John,  and 
among  the  replacements  the 
Cardiff  Institute  student,  Jus¬ 
tin  Thomas,  who  can  play 
wing  or  full  bade,  allows  the 
Welsh  selectors  to  lode  to  the 
future.  They  now  have  no 
chance  of  successfully  defend¬ 
ing  their  five  nations'  title  but 
can  blood  players  of  potential. 
At  I7st  and  6ft  lin,  John  has 
already  convince!  them  in 
under-21  internationals  that 
he  can  make  the  step  up- 

He  played  No  8  for  Welsh 
Schools  and  has  the  reput¬ 
ation  of  a  strong,  ball-han¬ 
dling  forward.  He  earned  a 
place  among  LJanefii’s  re¬ 
placements  for  last  season's 
cup  final  and  has  played  on 
rota  with  William s-Jones  and 
the  injured  Ricky  Evans  this 
season.  His  appearances 
include  his  dub's  meeting 
with  the  South  Africans  last 
October,  ten  days  after  his  21st 
birthday.  “He  comes  with  a 
fair  pedigree,  he’s  confident, 
mature  and  has  a  fair  amount 
of  footballing  ability.’*  Robert 
Norster,  the  Welsh  team  man¬ 
ager,  said. 

Apart  from  Thomas.  21.  the 
replacements  also  include  the 
experienced  David  Evans, 
now  29.  The  last  of  Evans’S  II 
caps  was  during  the  1991 
World  Cup.  against  Australia, 
but  after  a  series  of  injuries, 
his  career  has  been  rejuvenat¬ 
ed  by  his  move  to  Treordiy. 

Scotland,  unbeaten  in  three 
internationals  since  die  turn  of 
the  year,  wifi  name  their  XV 
today.  They  need  to  replace  the 
injured  centre,  Iain  Jardine, 
and  Damien  Cronin  at  lode 
which  gives  them  an  opportu¬ 
nity  to  recall  Scott  Hastings, 
dropped  after  the  game  with 
South  Africa,  and  retain  Dod- 
die  Weir  who  replaced  Cronin 
against  France  last  Saturday. 
□John  Hall,  die  former  Eng¬ 
land  flanker  now  in  his  second 
season  as  Bath'S  captain,  has 
confirmed  that  he  will  retire 
this  year.  Hall,  33  next  month, 
would  have  wot  many  more 
than  21  caps  but  for  injury, 
and  his  decision  will  give  extra 
motivation  in  his  club’s  drive 
for  yet  another  league  and  cup 
double. 


LEAGUE:  FM  tSvtoriorc  CBheroe  4 
Burscougri  1. 

BEAZER  HOMES  LEAGUE:  Prerefef  chri¬ 
sten:  Chelmsford  a  Braton  4. 

AVON  NSURANCeCOMBWATON:  Fkgt 
cfvtofar:  Crystal  Palace  3  Criaritan  0; 
Queens  Parit  Rangers  1  Watford  2. 
Postponed:  Bristol  Rovers  v  fpswch; 
Chelsea  v  Svwndon:  Tottenham  v 
Souhampton 

PONTIUS  CENTRAL  LEAGUE:  ft*  dhri- 
afore  Aston  Via  2  Manchester  Utd  0. 
Second  dhrisfore  Leicester  2  Burlay  2. 
JEWSON  WESSEX  LEAGUE  CUP:  Ouar- 
ter-tfoaL  second  toff  Postponed:  AFC 
Lprttigion  v  Fleet 

HONG  KONG:  Dynasty  Cup:  Japan  1 
South  Korea  i:  hong  Kong  0  China  a 
FIFA  WORLD  RANWNG&  1.  Brazfl 
80-54pta;  2,  Spain  61.70;  3.  Italy  81  57;  4. 
Sweden  61.12:  5.  Germany  8086:  a 
Norway  59.99:  7.  AigarttaB  59.45:  8. 
Hotata  59-29: 9.  Mexico  5834, 10.  Ireland 
57  20;  11.  SnttzBriand  57.18;  12,  Romania 
56.13;  13.  Nigeria  5538: 14,  Bulgaria  54.09: 
IS.  Denmark  53.49:  18.  Cotomtw  52.84; 
17.  Russia  52.49;  18.  France  52.41;  19. 
Portugal  5204;  20.  England  5 132. 

FREESTYLE  SKIING 


Mere  1.  R  Kristiansen 


Cup  standngs:  i. 

..  2.  Becker  580:  3. 

. _ Woman:  1.  Y  Batalova 

1^7.80;  2.  C  Fechoz  (Fr)  2535;  3.  E 

ri  (US)  25.65.  4.  A  Johansson  (S we) 
24.45:  5.  J  wwe  (Frt  2330.  6,  R  Gutierrez 

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540. 

ICE  HOCKEY  ~~ 

NATIONAL  LEAGUE  (NWJ:  Nwr  Jersey  2 
Washvwon  0.  Marareal  3  Iff  Handera  2 
KJT);  NY  Rangere  3  Tampa  BwljDetnft  < 
Toranfo  2  Chicago  3  San  Jose  2:  St  Laras  4 
Edmonton  0:  Dafes  2  Calgary  1;Vanccwver 
8  Loa  Angelas  2. 


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Vilars 


Gerald  McClellan,  above,  is  so  confi¬ 
dent  of  relieving  Nigel  Benn  of  his 
World  Boring  Council  super-middle- 
weight  boxing  tide  on  Saturday  at  die 
London  Arena  that  he  has  not  studied 
him  on  videotape  (Srikumar  Sen 
writes).  He  said  at  his  first  press 
conference  in  London  yesterday  that 


he  stopped  viewing  his  opponents  on 
tape  ever  since  losing  to  Dennis 
MQton  six  years  ago  alter  watching 
him  on  video  and  changing  his  style. 
The  former  world  middleweight 
champion,  from  Detroit;  who  has  lost 
only  two  of  his  33  contests,  has  stopped 
29  of  his  opponents.  He  did  not  expect 


Benn  to  last  the  distance,  either.  “My 
goal  is  always  to  win  in  the  first,”  he 
said.  “It’s  a  great  feeling  for  me  to 
knock  a  man  unconscious.”  McClel¬ 
lan  aspires  to  take  on  Roy  Jones,  die 
International  Boxing  Federation 
super-middleweight  champion. 

Photograph:  Magi  Haroun 


Woodhall  eager  to  upgrade  status 


So„,«sl<.CW)OiG,3^5«.L-l<^s^U-lWw 


By  Srikumar  Sen 
BOXING  CORRESPONDENT 

RICHIE  WOODHALL.  the 
world  No  7  middleweight,  can 
go  to  the  top  of  the  World 
Boxing  Council  rankings  if  he 
lifts  the  vacant  European 
championship  by  beating 
Silvio  Branco,  of  Italy,  at 
Telford  tonight 
Woodhall  gets  his  chance 
because  Gerald  McClellan, 
the  champion,  moved  up  to 
super-middleweight  to  chall¬ 
enge  Nigel  Benn  in  a  bout  that 


MOTOR  RALLYING 

HEART  OF  ENGLAND  NATIONAL  RALLY 
iOxfarcfatw*):  1 .  S  Price  (Metro  6R4)  48nvi 
54sac:  2.  P  Doughty  (Sena  CoswonM 
4956;  3.  T  Jams  (tsoofl  Coswoithl  51:10. 
ROAD  AND  STAGE  BAY  RALLY  ICran- 
bna):  I.DAMneon (Ford Escort) 43.18: 2.R 
Hemmfogway  (Sapt*w®  Coswwth)  43:42; 
3,  C  O'Connor  (Sappnire  Ccswonhj  44:54. 

SQUASH  ~ 

MANSFIELD:  Inter-County  senior  cfcam- 
pforehips:  Finals,  men:  Yoristwe  3  Ctieeh- 
<ra  £  Women:  Stirey  4  Yorkstwe  1 
SUPER  LEAGUE:  Welsh  Back  WUaids  0 
Cannons  Club  3  (Jans  Her  Khan  lost  to  P 
Maratrt  M.  6-9. 9-1 . 2-9.  J  Moo"e  loai  io  S 
Parte  IM.  0-9, 8-9. 2-9:  A  Dawes  toa»T 
Hwfoa  83.  43.  KX.  Uon  Herts  3 
Waike?  Fammond  Manchester  0  (C  Waken 
M  N  Teyfor  94).  OS.  8-10.  <•«.  9-«:  C 
Wapnlck  W  A  Toes  9-0.98. 9-1:  J  Wetto® 
bt  P  Kelly  108.  08.  93.  941.  Efis 
Stockbrokers  UngMd  2  Jim  Hal  Sports 
Northern  1  (R  Eyles  bl  D  Ryw  10-9. 93. 9 
3;AKirWandloeUoAGeugh5-e.  68.92. 
95. 2-9:  U  Hams  W  G  Dawes  95. 91. 9-4) 
Postponed:  Ogmore  Vafiey  Dragons  v 
Rackets  CkJx  subtea  to  decviniy 
hvesOgatlcn.  Sttrvfinga:  1,  Cannons  CUD 
35ocs.  2.  1CL  Lion  Herts  29.  3.  Ogmore 
viiey  Dragons  21  4.  Welsh  Back  Wizards 
20.  5.  Efa  SuxUnhets  bngfietd  17;  5. 
WaKar  Faramond  Manchester  12:  7,  Rack¬ 
ets  Oub  10. 8.  Jim  Hal  Sports  Northern  9. 

STUDEMT  SPORT 

JACA.  Spain:  WmW  World  Student 
Games:  Skiing:  Men:  V  M  Weiss  (US)  2  5 


!.  M  Ore 

(Swe)  1.4424;  3.  E  Woll  (Auaiial  1.4456 
Nordic  Skang:  Women:  15k  raiay:  r 
Russia  (I  Kroupycheva.  L  Lemenrchouk,  O 
Kosnachevaj  42mn  59  teec.  2.  Japan 
43-50  4;  3.  Ukrafoe  4356.1 

TENNIS 

STUTTGART;  Man's  Indoor  tournament 
FM  round:  A  BeraSSfocu  fSp)  t»  O 
DeWtre  (Ftl  4-8.  6-3.  6-4:  R  Krajicek  (Hoi) 
bl  S  Dosedel  pz)  6-4.  2-6.  6-2:  M  Dr-ran 
rez)  bi  M  Srmer  ^ert  6-2,  6-2:  M  such 
(Get)  a  C  Costa  (Sp)  03,  H:  W  Ferreira 
(SA)  bl  H  Dreekrrwm  (Gei)  2-6. 6-1. 6-3:  Y 
Kafelrricov  (Tfoas)  bl  P  Korda  (C2)  6-2. 6-1. 
PHILADELPHIA:  Men’s  indoor  tourna¬ 
ment  FJrat  round:  J  Tarango  (US)  tt  A 
Boetsch  (Fr)  6-7. 7-6. 62:  S  Lareau  (Cen)  bl 
S  Bryan  (USJ  64.  62.  T  &qvtsi  (Svre)  m  J 


TIMHS 

SNOWLINE 

0891 333  568 


(SB  ■ 

WEATHERLINE  I 
0891  333  462 


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is  scheduled  to  take  place  on 
Saturday. 

As  a  result  of  McClellan's 
departure,  Julian  Jackson  and 
Agostini  Cardamone.  the  No  1 
and  No  2.  will  be  boxing  for 
the  world  title  and  Branca  the 
No  3.  becomes  the  Nol 
challenger. 

Branco  will  not  be  easy  to 
beat  He  is  used  to  English 
boxers,  having  outpointed  Ray 
Webb  and  stopped  Ian 
Chauffer  in  two  rounds  and 
drawn  with  the  Liverpool- 
based  Korean,  Judas  Gotliey. 


Yzaga  (Peru)  2-6. 7-6. 7-5:  J  Gradb  (US)  bl  J 
Bfortown  (Sue)  61 . 64:  P  RNlra  (Aus)  bl  V 
Spadee  (US)  98. 7-6. 82:  M  Chang  (US)  bl 
R  Frembem  (Aus)  63.  7-6:  M  Wdodforde 
(Aus)  bt  M  Cacopardo  (US)  63. 63. 
VTSJNA:  Women’s  Moor  wumamenc 
First  round:  M  School  (Aus)  bi  R  Bobkova 


sns(HoD 
a  K  Now*  (Pd)  63. 60. 

NEWCASTLE-  LTA  Women’s  ChoAanoor 
toumamant  (GB  unless  stated):  Fwt 
round:  C  PapadaW  (Gr)  bl  SA  Stodal  63. 
63:  H  Ketetaara  (Hoil)  bl  D  Jones  (Aus)  6i. 
61;  L  Cher  (China)  bl  L  Bacheva  (BuQ  7-5. 
64;  L  Varmuzova  (Sen  Martio)  bt  K 
Teodorowta  (Pol)  6a  61:  S  Krwichevei 
(BU)  bt  S  Schmldfo  (Ger)  6Z  1-6.  64;  S 
Nooriander  (Hon  la  K  Shape  (AutoM  6-3. 
&a  M  Sabold  (Ger)  bl  L  AW  67. 64. 64;  S 
PDschke  (AuSfoa)  bt  C  Bakkum  (Ho8l  60, 6 
3;  S  Waactpershauser  (Ger)  bl  J  Putoi  6-3. 
62 

ATP  RANKINGS  (US  untees  stated).  1.  P 
Sampras  4.776prs:  2,  A  Agassi  4.082  2  B 
Bedrar  (Ger)  3.033.  4,  S  Bruguera  (So) 
2.829.  5.  G  krsrasevic  (Cm)  2595;  8.  M 
Chang  2537;  7.  A  Berassiegui  (Sp)  2473; 
8,  Y  KaWntov  (Russ)  2460. 

WTA  RANKINGS  (US  unless  stated):  1,  S 
Oral  (Gert;  2  A  Sanchez  Vtaario  (Sp);  3.  M 
Pierce  (Fa  4.  C  Martfriez  (So);  5,  JNovotna 
(Cz).  6.  L  Davenport.  7.  G  Sabatim  (Arg);  8, 
K  Date  (Japan) 

VOLLEYBALL 

MB*  National  League:  Reebok  Liverpool 

City  3  Whaefiefo  1:  Potanfa  EaRng  2 

Warwick  Rto  3.  Newcastle  Starts  3 
Camden  Aqifia  1 ;  Mzraio  Makvy  Lawsham 
3  Wessex  1.  Cup:  Serr66nafa:  Reebok 

Liverpool  City  0  Mtzuno  Malory  LenUshan  3; 

WhnSieW  1  Weesax  3. 

WOMEN:  National  Cup:  KLEA  Leeds  0 
Braanwa  Musk  City  3;  Sale  3  London 
Malory  3. _ 

_ YACHTING _ 

SAN  DIEGO:  America's  Cup:  Citizen 
(defender's  senes).  Y 
Mateney)  bl  Amertca* 

?4sec.  _ 

2  Stars  6  Stripes  13;  2  America’  7.  Louts 
Vutiton  Cup  (chalangers  senes):  Team 
New  Zealand  ip  Courts)  bt  oneAustrafta  g 
Bertrand)  26.  Francs’  (M  Petal)  bl  Rote  de 
Espana  (P  Campos)  656;  Tag  Heuer 
Chalenoe  (C  Doaon)  bt  Sydney  95  (C 
Baesh^  4-07.  StancfcigB:  1.  Team  New 
Zeeland  32, 2  Tag  Hew*  OtaOerge  29;  3. 
onaAusoallB  25;  4,  Nippon  Challenge  14. 5. 
France*  11:  6.  Sydney  95  B;  7.  ftoja  de 
Espana,  4. 


Branco  has  lost  once  in  26 
contests. 

The  bout  could  be  excellent, 
with  a  puncher,  Branco, 
against  a  boxer,  WoodhalL 
Nineteen  of  Branco’s  24  wins 
have  come  inside  the  distance, 
but  the  Italian  has  been 
floored  as  well,  by  Cardamone 
and  Clottey.  It  is  unlikely  that 
Woodhall  will  deck  him.  Even 
though  11  of  Woodhall’S  18 
bouts  have  finished  early,  the 
Englishman  prefers  to  box. 

His  boxing  produced  a 
Commonwealth  gold  medal 


and  a  bronze  medal  in  the  1988 
Olympic  Gaines  against  Roy 
Jones,  now  the  International 
Boxing  Federation  super-mid¬ 
dleweight  champion.  Wood¬ 
hall  is  a  rare  boxer  who  has 
the  patience  to  use  the  jab, 
seizing  the  knockout  chance 
only  when  it  is  absolutely  safe. 

With  the  support  of  his 
home  crowd,  Woodhall  should 
come  through  on  points,  but 
be  will  have  to  stay  away  from 
Branco's  big  right  by  keeping 
the  bout  at  long  range  until  he 
is  well  ahead  on  points. 


Misfortune 
hampers 
French  as 
trial  keel 
is  lost  at  sea 

From  Barry  Pickthall 

m  SAN  DIEGO 

FRENCH  hopes  of  winning 
die  America's  Cup  took 
another  dive  when  the  keel  on 
their  training  yacht  broke  off 
late  on  Monday  (earing  the 
vessel  to  capsize  11  miles  off 
San  Diego.  No  one  was  hurt 
though  four  crew  were 
thrown  in  the  water.  But  die 
yacht’s  20-ton  secret  keel  was 
lost  in  900ft  of  water. 

The  incident  is  the  latest  in 
a  catalogue  of  disasters  to 
have  struck  Marc  Pajofs 
team,  which  languishes  equal 
fifth  in  the  Lords  Vuitton 
challenge  trials  despite  hav¬ 
ing  one  of  the  largest  budgets. 

Last  December,  the  same 
yacht  fell  from  the  crane 
hoisting  it  from  the  water  and 
sustained  more  than  $1  mil¬ 
lion  (about  £630,000)  worth  of 
damage.  The  lost  keel  is 
believed  to  have  been  the 
latest  design  from  France  and 
ought  have  transformed 
Pajofs  fortunes  in  the  vital 
fourth  round  next  month.  His 
team  has  won  only  five  of  its 
12  races.  The  capsized  boat 
was  towed  back  to  its  base  at 
Mission  Bay  in  darkness. 

Pajot,  who  directed  the 
salvage  operation,  confirmed 
that  the  four  bolts  holding  the 
keel  to  the  hull  had  sheared 
and  admitted  that  the  acci¬ 
dent  would  have  a  severe 
impact  on  his  team.  “We  are 
now  down  to  a  one-boat 
programme.”  he  said. 

The  French  did  have  some¬ 
thing  to  cheer  about.  Earlier, 
their  main  entry.  France3 
ended  a  run  of  four  losses  by 
comprehensively  beating  the 
Spanish,  who  remain  bottom 
of  the  table. 

Another  loser  was  John 
Bertrand's  new  boat 
oneAustralia  which  fell  in  a 
close  race  to  the  unbeaten 
Team  New  Zealand,  skip¬ 
pered  by  Russell  Coutts. 
Chris  Dickson's  rival  New 
Zealand  rfiaiiwigw,  Tag 
Heuer,  also  won  against  Syd¬ 
ney  95  and  was  to  meet 
against  Coutts  and  his  crew 
last  night  in  the  hope  of 
establishing  a  firmer  hold  on 
second  place  in  the  standings. 

CHALLENGE  TRIALS:  Results-.  Team  New 
Zaatsnd  (R  Courts)  bi  oneAustrala  (J 
Bertrand)  026sec;  Ranee3  (M  Pajoft  bl 
Rioja  de  Espana  (P  Campos.  &>)  656;  Tag 
Heuer  Chefcnge  fc  Dickson.  NZ)  bt  Sydney 
95 (S Fischer,  Aus)  4:07  Positions:  I.Team 
New  Zealand  32pte:  2  Tag  Heuer  Chall¬ 
enge  29: 2  oneAustrafa  25;  4,  Nmon  94 
(M  Mamba,  Japan]  14;  5  equal,  Sydney  95 
and  France3 11. 7.  Rc$a  de  Espane  4 
DEFENCE  TRIALS:  Racing  postponed  on 
Monday.  Positions:  1.  Young  America  (K 
Mahaney)  21  pts;  2  Stare  t  Stripes  (D 
Conner)  13: 3.  America*  7. 


Wizards  to 
complain 
as  Dragons 
postpone 
vital  match 

By  Colin  McQuillan 

AD  HOC  rearrangements  of 
both  domestic  fixtures  and 
international  schedules  could 
influence  the  outcome  of  the 
Super  Squash  League  end-of- 
season  play-offs  and  have 
prompted  a  complaint  from 
the  rivals  of  the  team  involved. 

Ogmore  Valley  Dragons, 
lying  third,  postponed  their 
Super  League  match  this  week 
in  a  late  private  agreement 
with  their  opponents.  Rackets 
Club,  from  Essex,  when  sev¬ 
eral  of  their  top  players  decid¬ 
ed  to  compete  in  the 
rean-anged  Stroh's  Open  in 
Calcutta.  The  Welsh  side  has 
competed  tenaciously  this  sea¬ 
son  with  a  small  squad  drawn 
from  a  pool  of  international 
professionals  whose  rankings 
depend  on  results  from  sudi 
second-level  events. 

With  the  play-offs  approach¬ 
ing  and  the  table  certain  to  be 
led  by  Cannons  Club  from  1CL 
Lion  Herts,  Gerwyn  Davies, 
the  Dragons'  manager,  is 
anxious  to  protect  a  league 
position  above  the  Welsh  Back 
Wizards,  who  decamped  from 
Cardiff  to  Bristol  this  season. 
Third  place  in  the  table  would 
mean  a  preferred  semi-final 
draw  against  the  Hertford¬ 
shire  club  in  the  play-offs. 

The  fact  that  the  Wizards' 
team  manager.  Robert  Ed¬ 
wards,  is  also  tournament 
director  for  the  rescheduled 
Stroh’s  Open,  as  well  as 
executive  director  of  the  Super 
Squash  League  itself,  adds 
spice  to  the  situation.  Edwards 
flew  in  the  world  champion. 
Jansher  Khan,  from  Pakistan 
on  Monday  in  the  hope  of 
overtaking  the  Dragons’  one- 
point  lead,  but  his  squad  was 
crushed  at  home  by  the  unde¬ 
feated  league  leaders.  Can¬ 
nons  Club,  and  the  world 
champion  was  comprehen¬ 
sively  beaten  by  Peter  Mar¬ 
shall,  the  British  champion. 

The  rules  of  the  Super 
Squash  League  allow  for 
match  postponements  in  cer¬ 
tain  circumstances,  but  only 
with  the  approval  of  the 
controlling  board,  which  in¬ 
cludes  the  executive  director. 
Edwards  said  yesterday  that 
he  would  remove  himself  from 
any  disciplinary  investigation 
arising  from  the  rearrange¬ 
ment.  But  the  Wizards’  owner 
and 1  team  promoter.  John 
Wells,  has  lodged  an  official 
complaint  on  the  grounds  that 
the  rearranged  fixture  could 
adversely  affect  his  side's 
chances  of  finishing  third. 


THE  TIMES 


RACING 

Commezusry 

Call  0891  500123 

Resnhs 

Call  0891 100  123 


FOOTBALL 

Repans  and  scores  from 
the  FA  Carling  Premiership 

Call  0839  555  562 

Repeals  and  scores  from  die 
Coca-Cola  Cup  semi-finals 
and  Endsleigb  lnsnnnce  League 

Call  0839  555  512 


Calls  cost  39p  per  nun  cheap  rate 
49p  per  mm  at  all  other  tunes 


By  Robert  Sheehan,  bridge  correspondent 

WHEN  you  are  the  declarer  in  a  trump  contract  and  you  have 
Q  x  x  of  a  side  suit  in  dummy  and  x  x  in  your  own  hand,  do  you 
give  the  combination  much  thought  when  the  defence  lead  it? 

This  hand  occurred  in  the  Macallan  Camrose  match  between 
England  and  Scotland  last  month. 

Dealer  East  Game  aO.  IMPS 

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Macintosh 

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Contract  Four  Spades  by  South.  Opening  lead:  Jack  of  hearts 


(1)  “Unassuming  cue-bid”, 
showing  at  least  a  good  raise 
to  Two  Spades 

When  Armstrong  led  the 
jack  of  hearts  Macintosh 
made  the  innocuous-looking 
play  of  the  queen  from  dum¬ 
my.  Kirby  won  the  ace  (good 
card  —  it  shows  his  partner  he 
is  not  interested  in  a  heart 
continuation)  and  switched  to 
his  singleton  chib.  Kirby  then 
won  the  first  sjade  and  put  his 
partner  in  with  the  ten  of 
hearts  to  get  a  club  ruff  and 
beat  the  contract  by  one. 

While  it  was  unfortunate 
that  it  cost  playing  the  queen 
of  hearts  at  trick  one  was 
definitely  wrong.  One  way  of 


looking  at  it  is  that  if  you  play 
low  only  East  can  win  the 
second  round;  playing  the 
queen  allows  the  defence  an 
option  as  to  who  will  win  the 
next  round.  Why  give  the 
defence  an  option  that  they 
may  be  able  to  use  profitably? 

□  The  final  round  of  the 
Macallan  Camrose  Trophy 
(the  home  internationals) 
takes  place  this  weekend.  Eng¬ 
land  play  Northern  Ireland  in 
Beliak  while  Wales  play 
Scotland  in  Newport  The 
current  standings  are  Eng¬ 
land  112  Victory  Prints.  North¬ 
ern  Ireland  96.  Scotland  89 
and  Wales  61. 


By  Philip  Howard 


KIBE 

a.  A  chilblain 

b.  To  skive  or  malinger 

c.  The  rook  or  hoodie  crow 

SCUMBLE 

a.  To  fall  backwards  off  a 
horse 

b.  A  defender  at  lacrosse 

c.  To  overpaint 


BREASTSUMMER 

a.  A  nudist  beach 

b.  The  main  beam 

c.  A  mythical  bird 


EUTHENICS 

a.  Improving  die  environment 

b.  Mercy  killing 

c.  Health  through  dancing 

Answers  on  page  46 


Keene  on  chess 
- 1 - 


By  Raymond  Keene 

CHESS  CORRESPONDENT 

02,000  Prize 
Luke  McShane,  who  celebrat¬ 
ed  his  11th  birthday  during  the 
Hastings  chess  tournament  in 
January,  earned  the  biggest 
prize  of  his  life  on  Monday 
when  he  wot  a  £12,000  spons¬ 
orship  from  the  British  com¬ 
puter  company  Psion.  Luke’s 
successes  already  indude 
being  the  youngest  British 
player  ever  to  draw  with  a 
grandmaster  and  the  youn¬ 
gest  ever  to  beat  an  interna¬ 
tional  master.  Garry 
Kasparov  himself  predicted 
that  one  day  Luke  would  be 
stronger  than  Nigel  Short 

Luke  gained  the  highest 
ever  single  sponsorship  for  a 
British  chess  prodigy  by  win¬ 
ning  a  miniature  game  played 
at  Simpson’s-in-the-Strand, 
London  against  the  Psion 
manager  Anthony  Garvey. 
Luke  finished  with  an  elegant 
queen  sacrifice  to  force 
checkmate. 

A1  though  Luke’s  career  has 
been  a  brilliant  string  of 
successes  so  far.  he  has  been 
handicapped  by  lade  of  funds 
for  travelling  to  tournaments 
and  to  obtain  grandmaster 
level  coaching.  With  this  gap 
now  plugged.  Luke  now  hopes 
to  go  on  to  become  Britain’s 
first  ever  world  chess 
champion. 

White  Anthony  Garvey 
Blade  Luke  McShane 
Simpson "s-in-the-Strand.  Feb¬ 
ruary  1995 

Sicilian  Defence 

1  84  C5 

2  14  NcS 


By  Raymond  Keene 


This  position  is  from  the 
game  Stahl  be  re  -  Becker. 
Buenos  Aires.  1944.  White 
has  driven  the  blade  king  up 
the  board,  allowing  him  to 
finish  the  game  with  an 
attractive  combination. 
White  to  play.  Can  you  spot 
the  finish? 

Solution,  page  46 


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Bxc6 

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Nxc6 

Cucc6 

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Draughts  Record 

An  American  draughts  master 
has  set  a  new  world  record  for 
playing  different  opponents  at 
the  same  time.  Charles  Walk¬ 
er  of  Mississippi  played 
against  306  opponents  simul¬ 
taneously.  In  just  four  hours 
he  won  300  games,  tost  I  and 
drew  5. 

Correction 

The  answer  to  yesterday's  Win¬ 
ning  Move  purde  repeated  that 
given  on  Monday.  It  should  have 
read: 

1  Rd7!  wins,  as  if  I ...  Bxd7  2  Qxg7  is 
mate. 


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Ripples  of  fishing’s  popularity  spread  far  andwide  0e^c 

thtYMioh  the  rod  „  - _ at\  ivr  n*nt 


There  are  3 j  million  an^rs 

aged  12  and  over  m  Britain. 
S  million  of  them  in  Eng¬ 
land  and  Wales  alone.  More  than 
one  in  five  ABCl  hous^o^J^a 
fisherman  in  it  English  and  Welsh 
freshwater  anglers  spend  an  aver¬ 
age  of  more  than  EJ.000  apiece,  or 
£3.3  billion  a  year  in  total,  on  their 
sport  Twelve  per  cent  of  all  anglers 
arc  women.  An  awful  lot  of  anglers 
break  the  law. 

These  astonishing  figures,  which 
are  released  today  by  the  National 
Rivers  Authority  (NRA|,  come  from 
the  most  detailed  and  ^edible 
survey  of  angling  ever  published. 
They  show  the  activity  to  be  almost 
as  much  an.industry  as  it  is  a  sport 
They  contain  information  erf  value 
not  only  10  the  NRA  but  to  the 
angling  community  as  a  whole  and 
all  those  who  service  it 
There  are  insights  among  them 
for  each  of  the  sport's  representa¬ 


tive  bodies,  whose  subscribing 
memberships  look  pathetic  in  the 
light  of  what  is  now  unarguably 
known;  for  fishery  owners  and 
dubs;  for  a  range  of  service 
industries  and  suppliers;  for  adver¬ 
tisers;  for  those  deciding  the  shape 
and  powers  of  the  new  Environ¬ 
ment  Agency  into  which  the  NRA 
will  eventually  be  rolled;  and  for 
the  Government,  which  funds  an¬ 
gling  Jess  than  any  other  water 
sport,  though  its  participants  out¬ 
number  those  in  all  other  water 
sports  combined. 

Previous  surveys  on  angling 
were  held  in  1970  and  1980  by  the 
same  company.  However,  there 
was  much  questioning  of  the  fig¬ 
ures  which  those  surveys  contained 
and  they  cannot  safely  be  used  to 
indicate  credible  trends  because  the 
objectives,  criteria  and  polling  tech¬ 
niques  used  this  time  have  ail 
significantly  changed.  What  is 


Brian  Clarke  studies  a  survey  portraying  hordes 
hooked  on  a  sport  that  is  paying  the  price 


for  the  licence  fees  allowed  to  slip  from  the  net 


more,  detailed  figures  are  supplied 
only  for  England  and  Wales 
because  the  NRA’s  remit  does  not 
extend  to  Scotland. 

With  those  caveats  made,  this 
new  poll  by  NOPends  once  and  for 
all  -the  wilder  speculation  in  the 
angling  community  on  its  own  real 
strength  —  and  the  lay  public’s 
perception  that  angling  is  a  mildly 
dotty  pursuit  pursued  by  the  few. 

In  the  two  years  before  the 
fieldwork  last  winter  and  spring, 
2296,000  individuals  in  England 
and  Wales  fished  for  coarse  fish. 
Over  the  same  period.  843,000 
game  anglers  —  that  is.  anglers 
who  fish  for  salmon  and  trout  — 


visited  the  water.  So  did  1,104.000 
sea  anglers.  Around  37  per  cent  of 
all  anglers  were  active  in  more  than 
one  branch  of  the  sport  An 
apparent  small  decline  in  die  total 
of  all  anglers  since  the  1980  survey 
may  be  accounted  for  by  changes  in 
definitions  and  by  an  apparent  and 
unexplained  decline  in  interest  in 
sea  angling. 

While  20  per  cent  of  coarse 
anglers  fished  less  than  half  a 
dozen  times  a  year  over  the  two- 
year  period,  16  per  cent  fished  200 
times  or  more.  The  average 
number  of  outings  in  the  two  years 
was  87.  better  than  one  a  week  in 
each  nine-month  season.  A  half  of 


all  game  anglers  fished  less  than 
half  a  dozen  times  a  year,  a  figure 
significantly  influenced  by  the  low 
participation  in  salmon  and  sea 
trout  angling,  itself  a  figure  inevita¬ 
bly  influenced  by  the  cost,  remote¬ 
ness  and  sadly  declining  quality  of 
most  salmon  and  sea  trout  waters. 

If  coarse  anglers  outnumber  and 
out-fish  game  anglers,  the  game 
anglers  spend  much  more  per  head 
—  £44.11  an  outing  against  £2121. 
Salmon  anglers  are  most  likely  to 
subscribe  to  a  fishing  club.  The 
survey  does  not  show  the  average 
expenditure  on  salmon  fishing 
alone,  or  the  average  cost  of  each 
salmon  caught,  presumably 
because  there  were  not  enough 
noughts  in  the  computer. 

One  of  foe  main  purposes  of  the 
survey  was  to  enable  the  NRA’s 
fisheries  group  to  understand  the 
size  of  its  potential  market-place 
and  the  amount  of  revenue  it  can 


expect  to  raise  through  the  ^ 
licences  which  it  issues  and  wnicn 
every  freshwater  angler  by  law 
should  buy-  The  news  is  not  good. 
Anything  up  to  60  per  cent  oi 
freshwater  anglers  fish  without  a 
licence,  11  per  cent  admitting  the 
fact,  two  per  cent  more  suffering  a 
rtehilitarina  amnesia  when  asked. 


million,  or  increase  by  40  per  rent 
the  fends  it  is  now  raising  from 


debilitating  amnesia 

In  its  commentary  accompany¬ 
ing  the  survey,  many  will  feel  that 
the  NRA  is  underplaying  the  loss  of 
revenue  which  licence  evasion  al 
this  level  represents,  last  year,  the 
NRA  sold  fewer  than  one  million 
licences:  Around  two  million  an¬ 
glers  are  dearly  investing  signifi¬ 
cantly  in  the  sport. 

Many  of  these  will  be  individuals 
who  couid  be  expected  to  buy 
cheap,  one-day  and  right-day  li¬ 
cences.  But  many  will  not  If  just 
one  in  three  of  the  unlicensed 
anglers  were  to  buy  a  full  £15 
permit,  the  NRA  fisheries  group 


fiSlleS-€vident  that  every  licence 

not  sold  means  less  cash  available  $ 
for  fisheries  improvement  and  a 

the  difficulties,  fe 
NRA  has  to  become  very  much 
better  at  policing  Ucence  evasion. 

Tlje  visible  wearing  of  a  permit, 
as  is  widely  practised  in  the  United 
States  because  of  the  peer  pressure 
exerted,  may  be  one  way  forward. 

A  high  proportion  of  those  sur¬ 
veyed  think  h  is.  though  some 
cultural  resistance  could  be 
expected- 


Lara  opts  to 
return  for 


three  years  at 
Edgbaston 


By  tvo  Tennant 


WHATEVER  everybody  else 
has  tosay  about  couniy  cricket 
and  its  supposedly  declining 
standards,  the  finest  batsman 
in  the  world  has  not  yet  had 
his  fill.  Brian  Lara,  who  last 
summer  exhausted  all  stocks 
of  superlatives,  will  rejoin 
Warwickshire  on  a  three-year 
contract  commencing  in  1996. 

Lara  cannot  play  for  the 
county  champions  this  year 
because  he  will  be  touring 
England  with  West  Indies. 
His  signing  of  a  new  contract 
means  that  Allan  Donald, 
whom  few  counties  would 
spurn  as  an  overseas  player, 
will  not  be  able  to  play  for 
Warwickshire  after  this  sum¬ 
mer.  It  is  possible  that  he  will 
continue  his  involvement  with 
them  as  a  bowling  coach. 

Dennis  Amiss,  the  War¬ 
wickshire  chief  executive,  said 
that  they  had  considered  a  Iter- 


Mark  Ramprakash  has 
been  passed  fit  to  lead 
England  A  against  Bangla¬ 
desh  in  the  second  one-day 
international  in  Dhaka  to¬ 
day.  The  Middlesex  bats¬ 
man  has  recovered  from  flu 
and  makes  his  first  appear¬ 
ance  as  captain  of  a  repre¬ 
sentative  team  in  place  of 
Alan  Wells,  who  is  rested  for 
the  First  time  during  die  two- 
month  tour  of  India  and 
Bangladesh.  Phil  Neale,  the 
England  A  manager,  wall 
delay  naming  the  team  until 
he  has  inspected  the  pitch. 


nating  Lara  and  Donald,  the 
South  Africa  fast  bowler,  as 
their  one  permitted  overseas 
player.  “But,  when  Brian  said 
he  wanted  a  three-year  con¬ 
tract,  we  decided  that  was  the 
best  option  for  the  dub.  This  is 
a  tremendous  boost  because 
he  was  such  a  major  influence 
in  us  winning  three  trophies 
and  in  the  dressing-room." 

In  his  first  season  in  county 
cricket.  Lara  made  the  world 
record  score  of  501  in  a 
championship  match,  against 
Durham  last  June,  and  com¬ 
pleted  a  thousand  runs  for  the 
season  in  just  seven  innings. 
Whatever  LhesaJaiy  Warwick¬ 
shire  intend  paying  him.  it 
should  be  recouped  in  mem¬ 
bership  subscriptions  and  ad¬ 
vance  bookings.  Lara,  as  he 
showed  last  season,  puts  bot¬ 
toms  on  seals.  Lots  of  them. 

Warwickshire  also  took  into 


account  that  South  Africa  and 
Donald  will  be  involved  in  a 
heavy  schedule  of  Test  cricket 
over  the  coming  years.  “Allan 
would  have  had  to  leave  us 
two  months  before  the  end  of 
the  1997  season,"  Amiss  said. 
“But  it  was  not  an  easy 
decision  in  the  sense  that 
Allan  has  been  a  great  servant 
of  the  dub."  Donald  will  he 
particularly  valued  this  sea¬ 
son  because  M unton,  the  vice¬ 
captain  and  England  bowler. 
will  miss  the  start  because  of  a 
back  operation. 

After  six  months  of  negotia¬ 
tions.  Lara  flew  to  Birm¬ 
ingham  from  New  Zealand, 
where  West  Indies  are  tour¬ 
ing.  to  complete  the  deal.  Not 
surprisingly,  he  has  taken 
time  “to  step  back  and  look  at 
the  hectic  nature  of  the  Eng¬ 
lish  season",  as  Amiss  put  h. 
before  committing  himself! 

When  Lara  returns  next 
year,  he  will  have  to  make  do 
without  the  influential  coach¬ 
ing  of  Bob  Woolmer.  who 
swiftly  concluded  that  here 
was  a  batsman  to  rank  above 
even  Barry  Richards.  He 
allowed  him  a  fair  amount  of 
leeway.  Lara  was  not  always 
expected  to  lead  the  regi¬ 
mented  life  of  an  old  pro  and 
Woolmer,  now  looking  after 
South  Africa,  harboured  no 
doubts  about  that  A  less 
flexible  coach  might  have  been 
a  more  pedantic  timekeeper, 
but  nobody  could  have  quib¬ 
bled  with  the  size  of  Lara’s 
contribution. 

Worcestershire,  Warwick¬ 
shire’s  great  Midlands  cricket 
rivals,  will  not  know  whether 
their  overseas  player.  Tom 
Moody,  will  be  wanted  by 
Australia  A.  who  tour  Eng¬ 
land  in  July  and  August,  until 
two  weeks  before  the  start  of 
the  season.  Duncan  Feamley, 
the  club’s  chairman,  has  been 
told  that  the  squad  will  be 
announced  before  Moody  is 
due  to  return  to  England. 

But.  by  then,  any  potential 
replacement  is  likely  to  have 
finalised  his  plans  for  the 
summer.  “I  have  pointed  out 
to  officials  in  Australia  that,  if 
Tom  played  just  one  game  for 
us  and  then  was  called  up  by 
his  country,  we  would  be 
stuffed.  It  would  mean  we 
could  not  have  another  over¬ 
seas  player."  Feamley  said. 

Worcestershire  announced 
yesterday  that  Tim  Curtis, 
their  captain,  made  £129,501 
from  his  benefit  last  year. 


••••  • 


Curtis  watches  Corsie  on  his  way  to  a  straight-sets  victory  yesterday  and  a  place  in  the  quarter-finals 


Corsie  prospers  from  fresh  impetus 


By  Gordon  Allan 


RICHARD  CORSIE.  champi¬ 
on  three  times  since  1989  and 
runner-up  to  Andy  Thomson 
last  year,  reached  the  quarter¬ 
finals  of  the  Churchill  Insur¬ 
ance  world  indoor  singles 
bowls  championship  when  he 
beat  Cameron  Curtis,  of  Aus¬ 
tralia,  7-5, 7-4, 7-4  at  the  Guild 
Hall.  Preston,  yesterday. 

However,  Corsie’s  victory 
was  not  as  straightforward  as 
the  score  implies.  “Cameron 
could  have  won  the  first  set, 
and  even  the  second."  Corsie 
admitted,  but  the  fact  was  that 
the  Scottish  player's  touch  was 
surer,  and  that,  allied  to  his 
much  greater  experience  of  the 
portable  rink,  was  enough. 

Curtis.  60  down  in  the  first 
set  pulled  back  to  6-5  before 


losing  it  and  in  the  third, 
facing  a  match  lie,  he  trailed 
the  jack  to  the  back  of  the  rink, 
but  left  Corsie  plenty  of  room 
to  draw  the  winner,  which  he 
duly  did. 

Corsie,  having  formerly  led 
for  Alex  Marshall  in  the  pairs, 
is  now  playing  skip,  and  finds 
the  change  beneficial.  “Before, 
I  was  drawing  for  the  jack  all 
the  time  in  singles  and  pairs," 
he  said,  "but  changing  roles 
from  one  game  to  the  next  is 
helping  to  keep  me  fresh.” 

Tony  All  cock  and  David 
Bryant  winners  of  the  pairs 
title  six  times,  took  their  place 
in  the  semi-finals  with  a  7-5, 
7-6,  7-6  victory  over  Mark 
McMahon,  of  Hong  Kong, 
and  Graham  Robertson,  of 
Scotland. 

Allcock  played  a  number  of 


fine  shots,  without  which  the 
match  would  have  lasted  long¬ 
er.  In  the  second  set  for 
example,  he  trailed  the  jack  for 
a  maximum  count  of  four,  and 
later,  faring  a  set  lie,  drew  the 
set- winning  shoL 

The  World  Bowls  Players’ 
Association  fWBPA),  whose 
membership  includes  all  16 
seeded  players  at  the  champi¬ 
onships  in  Preston,  an¬ 
nounced  yesterday  that  Corsie 
is  its  new  chairman  in  succes¬ 
sion  to  David  Bryant,  who  has 
retired.  John  Price  will  be  vice- 
chairman.  Gary  Smith  re¬ 
places  David  McGill  as 
secretary,  and  Wynne  Rich¬ 
ards  comes  in  as  treasurer. 

Corsie  said:  “The  associ¬ 
ation  hopes  to  be  proactive  in 
the  development  of  the  game 
at  every  level.  We  welcome  the 


promises  of  a  world  series  and 
would  like  to  offer  our  mem¬ 
bers  services  on  and  off  the 
green.  The  prospect  of  in¬ 
creased  commitments  makes 
it  more  important  than  ever 
that  the  players'  voice  is 
heard." 

WBPA  members  are  anx¬ 
ious  to  help  the  existing  gov¬ 
erning  bodies  and  to  support 
the  work  of  sponsors.  They  say 
they  are  prepared  to  under¬ 
take  public  relations  work  of 
various  kinds,  visiting  local 
clubs  during  leading  events 
and  coaching  or  running  clin¬ 
ics  if  requested. 


RESULTS:  Singles:  Second  round:  H  Dufl 
(Scull  bl  W  Ffcftaicfc  fEngJ  3-7  7-6  4-7  7-3 
7-5.  R  Coro  Scot)  tt  Cameron  Curtre 
CAlc-1  7-5.  7-4.  7-4.  Pairs:  Quarter-finals: 
Coro  and  A  Marshal  (Scot)  W  S  Rees  and 
J  Plica  (Wales!  7-5.  7-4.  4-7.  3-7  7-4.  A 
Allcock  and  D  Bryarfl  (Eng)  tt  M  McMehon 
(HK)  and  G  Robertson  (Scot!  7-5. 7-6. 7S 


If  uncertainty  be  the  food  of  sport,  play  on 


What  happens  next? 
This  is  the  central,  in 
some  ways  the  only, 
question  of  sport  I  remember 
[he  racehorse  trainer,  John 
Dunlop,  saying  to  me  as  we 
stood,  one  February  morning, 
surrounded  by  60  or  70 
unraced  two-year-olds,  how  he 
loved,  above  all.  this  time  of 
the  year. 

“Any  one  of  them  could  turn 
out  to  be  the  greatest  racehorse 
that  ever  set  foot  on  a  trade.” 
he  said.  “Any  single  one.  They 
almost  certainly  won't  be.  But 
noonecan  say  that  they  can't." 

Jenny  Pitman,  National 
Hum  trainer,  called  her  book 
A  Glorious  Uncertainty.  Nor 
is  it  just  raring,  but  all  sport 
The  most  certain  of  champions 
falls  victim  to  folly,  self-doubt 
injury;  the  most  obvious  no- 
hoper  is  filled  with  a  mad  self- 
certainty. 

Even  the  Boat  Race,  that 
most  predictable  and  proces¬ 
sional  sporting  event  of  the 
calendar,  can  throw  up  freak 
results,  as  in  the  famous 
mutiny  year.  Unpredictability 
is  the  stuff  of  spirt 


That  is  why.  in  the  days 
when  recorded  highlights 
dominated  football  people  ran 
ear-cuppmg  and  screaming 
from  the  room  when  the 
results  came  up.  Watching 
sport  when  you  know  tire 
result  is  like  drinking  alcohol- 
free  lager. 

When  the  whistle  blows,  the 
umpire  says  "play",  the  gun 
sounds,  the  hooter  goes  off  or 
the  bell  rings,  we  toboggan 
pell-mell  into  the  valley  of  the 
unknown.  Therein  lies  sports 
addictiveness. 

The  past  sporting  weekend 
was  a  catalogue  of  unpredict¬ 
ability.  Who  could  possibly 
have  predicted,  for  example, 
that  die  long  and  bitterly 
awaited  FA  Cup-tie  between 
Manchester  United  and  Leeds 
United  would  have  been  set¬ 
tled  after  four  minutes  of  play? 
Leeds  conceded  two  goals  and 
tire  match  as  the  stragglers 
were  still  taking  their  seats. 

Newcastle  United  won  their 
own  tie  on  another  unpredict¬ 
able  oddity.  The  Manchester 
City  goalkeeper.  Andy  Dibble, 
made  a  clownish  error  on  a 


MIDWEEK  VIEW. 


SIMON 

BARNES 


routine  clearance  and  the 
Magpies  were  away.  The  FA 
Cup  has  been  a  largely  pre¬ 
dictable  competition  thus  for 
this  year  sum  moments  re¬ 
store  your  faith  in  sporting 
unpredictability. 

Then  there  was  the  curious 
incident  of  Linford  Christie’s 
indoor  world  record  at  200 
metres.  Nobody  suspected  that 
this  was  on  the  cards,  or  even 
possible.  Christie  came  in  as  a 
last-minute  replacement  and 
then  improved  his  personal 


best  by  the  canyon-wide  mar¬ 
gin  of  03  seconds. 

You  want  more?  Alberto 
Tomba,  the  Italian  skier,  has 
won  ten  successive  World  Cup 
slaloms  this  season.  But  at  the 
weekend,  he  missed  a  gate  and 
was  gone. 

Perhaps  you  missed  the 
Aleksandr  Popov  story?  The 
Olympic  swimming  champi¬ 
on,  favourite  for  his  event  al 
the  World  Cup  event  in 
Germany,  crazily  lost  his  bal¬ 
ance  at  the  start  He  wobbled, 
false-started,  and  was  disqual¬ 
ified.  handing  the  race  to 
Marie  Foster,  of  Britain. 

More?  Steve  Davis,  the  im¬ 
placable  elder  brother  of 
world  snooker,  was  beaten  in 
a  Da  vis-style  attritions!  final 
by  a  teenager  called  John 
Higgins.  In  Scotland.  Aber¬ 
deen  beat  Rangers,  surprise 
enough  a  week  ago.  But,  at  the 
weekend,  they  were  them¬ 
selves  beaten  by  Stenhouse- 
muir  in  the  season’s  biggest 
upset.  Meanwhile,  the  Scottish 
rugby  team  won  in  France  for 
the  first  time  since  1969. 

The  weekend  was  a  gour¬ 


mand’s  feast  of  unpredictabili¬ 
ty.  The  uncertain  stuff  of  sport 
was  piled  high  on  our  plates, 
course  after  course.  Every  time 
we  thought  that  the  meal  was 

done,  the  waiter  appeared 
again,  staggering  under  his 
load,  to  lift  the  cover  with  a 
flourish  from  another  steam¬ 
ing  plate  of  sporting  stuff. 

At  last  the  final  savoury 
arrived.  The  name  of  this 
angel  on  horseback  was  Salim 
Malik,  of  Pakistan,  who  be¬ 
came  the  first  cricket  captain 
in  history  to  win  a  three-Tfest 
series  away  from  home  after 
losing  the  first  game.  Amaz¬ 
ing.  But  what?  Do  I  hear  some 
choking  at  ' the  table?  Is  the 
dish  too  spicy?  Burnt?  What  is 
wrong? 

Pakistan  cricket  is  reeling 
under  the  allegations  of 
match-fixing,  bribery  and  bet¬ 
ting.  Salim  is  among  the  shoal 
of  players  accused.  The  latest 
accusation  concerns  a  one- 
dayer  between  England  and 
Pakistan  in  1991  This  was  a 
close  and  bitterly  fought  sum¬ 
mer,  the  Test  series  ultimately 
won  by  Pakistan.  But.  at  T rent 


Bridge,  England  scored  an 
absurd  363.  then  bowled  out 
Pakistan  for  an  extraordinary 
165.  A  batting  and  bowling 
collapse  in  the  same  match. 

At  the  time,  the  match  was 
relished  as  more  of  the  Stuff  of 
Sport.  Now  we  must  wonder 
about  a  retrospective  stink.  A 
sad  business  for-cricket  for  all 
sport  In  fact  as  we  look  back 
at  the  upsets  and  follies  of  the 
past  weekend  through  the 
rising  smoke  of  cricket's  sleaze 
allegations,  a  slight  tremor  of 
doubt  is  apparent. 

The  glorious  uncertainty  of 
last  weekend's  sport  is  a 
fragile  thing,  a  bubble  of  faith. 
Sport  depends  for  its  very 
existence  on  the  fact  that  we 
believe  that  nobody  in  the 
world  actually  knows  what 
happens  next 

The  global  obsession  with 
sport;  and  the  global  industry 
of  sport  depend  on  the  global 
faith  in  its  enduring  unpredict¬ 
ability:  its  glorious  uncertain¬ 
ty.  If  the  faith  is  destroyed, 
then  the  weekend's  feast  is 
reduced  at  a  stroke  to  a  case  of 
alcohol-free  lager. 


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RFL  charges  Myers 
with  misconduct 


DAVID  MYERS,  the  Bradford  Northern  and  Great  Britain 
under-21  wing,  who  was  one  of  two  Bradford  players  to 
refuse  to  take  a  drag  test  after  their  victory  over  Hull  on 
Sunday,  has  also  been  ordered  to  appear  before  the  Rugby 
Football  League’s  disciplinary  committee  tomorrow  to 
answer  charges  that  he  deliberately  collided  with  a  referee. 
The  charge  follows  an  incident  during  Bradford’s  Silk  Cut 
Challenge  Cup  tie  against  Leeds  on  February  1Z  “Myers 
also  appeared  to  deliberately  kick  a  Leeds  player.”  an  RFL 
spokesman  said.  "The  onus  is  now  on  Myers  to  prove  that  be 
did  not  commit  either  act  deliberately." 

John  Devereux.  ofWidnes,  has  been  recalled  by  Wales  for 
the  derisive  John  Smith’s  European  championship  match 
against  France  in  Carcassonne  on  March  5. 


M  Hal  (Wigan).  P  Alchuon 
‘  Hants  (WWrtwtan),  A 
P  Ford  (SaSord),  D 
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Berlin  rules  out  bid 


OLYMPIC  GAMES:  The  mayor  of  Beilin  yesterday  ruled 
out  a  bid  by  the  city  to  host  the  Olympic  Games  in  2004 
following  its  failure  to  win  the  nomination  for  the  2000 
Olympics.  “A  fresh  bid  is  not  on  the  agenda,”  Eberhard 
Diepgen  said  in  a  published  regional  government  report 
into  the  felled  campaign  for  the  2000  Gaines,  which  were 
awarded  to  Sydney. 

Waliher  Troeger,  Germany’s  National  Olympic  Commit¬ 
tee  president,  said  a  German  bid  was  unlikely  for  more  than 
ten  years.  For  that  to  succeed,  he  said,  Germany  most  first 
secure  the  necessary  finances  and  g et  the  German  people 
behind  the  bid. 

The  report  said  Berlin's  bid  felled  because  the  government 
and  people  were  lukewarm;  a  spate  of  racist  attacks 
damaged  the  country's  image;  and  vocal  opposition  was 
well-organised.  The  bid’s  organisms  committee,  Olympia 
GmbH,  is  accused  of  corruption  and  wastage  in  its  DM80 
million  campaign. 


Chang  opens  defence 


TENNIS:  MicHaeT  Chang,  the  Ifiird  settL  “opened  the 
defence  of  his  Comcast  US  indoor  title  by  beating  Richard 
Fromberg,  of  Australia,  6-3.  7-6  in  Philadelphia.  His 
opponent,  ranked  No  42  in  the  world,  had  two  set  points  in 
the  second  set  but  Chang  increased  the  pressure.  “I  started 
to  return  better  and  get  a  few  more  points  on  his  serve.” 
Chang  said.  “I  was  controlling  the  points  a  bit  better  and  I 
was  more  patient  1  forced  myself  to  concentrate  better." 
Patrick  Rafter,  the  fifth  seed  from  Australia,  recovered  to 
beat  Vince  Spadea.  the  world  No  59  from  Spain.  $6. 7-6, 6-2. 
“I  was  a  bit  rusty  in  the  beginning."  Rafter  said. 


Davies’s  plans  queried 


RUGBY  LEAGUE:  Peter  Higham.  the  Warrington  chair¬ 
man.  intends  to  speak  with  Jonathan  Davies  after  reports 
that  the  player  intends  to  retire  from  competition  after  the 
World  Cup  this  year  to  pursue  a  career  in  broadcasting. 
Davies  was  not  prepared  to  comment  yesterday.  Higham 
said:  “Jonathan  has  always  discussed  developments  in  his 
career  with  us  first  and  I  have  no  reason  to  think  that  it  will 
be  any  different  this  time."  After  scoring  the  winning  try  in 
Great  Britain's  8-4  triumph  over  Australia  at  Wembley  last 
autumn,  Davies  injured  a  shoulder.  He  has  struggled  for 
fitness  since  making  his  comeback  on  Boxing  Day. 


Selectors  keep  faith 


RUGBY  UNION:  The  Welsh  Schools  senior  group  selectors 
have  not  panicked  in  the  wake  of  the  recent  424  defeat  by 
New  Zealand,  and  have  kept  changes  to  a  minimum  for  the 
game  against  France  at  Vuy  ChatiUon  on  Saturday.  Gareth 
Thomas,  the  hooker,  loses  his  place  to  Chris  Wells,  who  is  fit 
again,  while  Gareth  Newman  comes  in  al  No  8.  which 
allows  Richard  Field,  the  captain,  to  move  over  to  flanker, 
where  he  will  play  instead  of  Dewi  Coates.  Coates,  who  has 
left  hospital,  is  expected  to  make  a  full  recovery  after 
breaking  a  vertebra  in  his  neck. 


Monarchs  get  their  man 


AMERICAN  FOOTBALL:  Eric  Stephens,  a  comerback. 
was  the  first  choice  of  die  London  Monarchs  on  the  opening 
day  of  the  World  League  of  American  Football  draft  in 
Atlanta  on  Monday.  Tim  Barnett  a  wide  receiver,  was  first 
selection  of  the  Scottish  Claymores.  Seventeen  National 
Football  League  teams  have  allocated  37  players  to  the 
World  League  to  give  them  added  exposure  and  match 
practice-  Jerry  Vautisi.  World  League  vice-president,  said: 
“We  hope  this  year's  group  enjoys  the  World  League 
experience  and  that  their  NFL  teams  benefit  at  wdL" 


Torpids  prospects  bleak 


ROWING:  The  first  day  of  the  Oxford  University  Torpids 
on  the  Isis  today  has  been  cancelled  because  of  the  swollen 
state  of  the  nver.  With  unfavourable  weather  forecasts  there 
seems  little  chance  of  the  competition  starting,  although 
organisers  have  planned  a  further  meeting  for  tomorrow 
unlikely  event  of  conditions  improving 
sufficiently  for  raring  to  start  later  in  the  week,  the 
competition  will  be  restricted  to  the  top  dime  men's  divisions 
and  top  two  women’s  divisions. 


Randriantefy  surprise 


TENNIS:  Dally  Randriantefy,  18.  who  reached  the  third 
round  of  fee  Australian  Open  before  going  out  to  the 
eventual  wmnerMaiy  Pieroe.  of  France,  was  unexpectedly 
beaten  m  the  first  round  of  the  Women’s  Chaflenwr 
tournament  m  Newcastle  yesterday.  Randriantefy,  of 

Madagascar -regarded  by  many  as  a  prodigy  -  is  ainonfi 

the  rattles  for  the  Texaco  Challenge  in  Southampton  nert 
week.  Shirb-Ann  SiddalL  the  British  No  2.  is  the  oSy  home 
player  to  receive  direct  entry  into  the  main  draw.  - 


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RACING  45 


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Enforced  break  gives  Dunwoody  fresh  perspective  on  his  career 

Head  boy  returns  to  hard  school 


p  By  Andrew  Long  more 

^  schoolboy  will  (ell 

you.  holidays  can  seriously 
scramble  the  emotions.  On  the 
outside,  everything  was  back 
in  order  ai  Warwick  race¬ 
course  yesterday.  The  sun 
shone  through  a  bitter  wind 
the  going  was  on  the  soft  side 
of  soggy,  punters  cheered  and 
groaned,  bookmakers  counted 
their  money  and  the  head  boy. 
burnished  by  the  sun  of  Mid¬ 
dle  East  and  the  high  Alps, 
returned  to  the  winner's  enclo- 
a  30-day  break  in 
the  middle  of  term  time. 

h  was  as  if  Richard 
Dunwoody  had  never  been 
away.  Except  that  the  Richard 
Dunwoody  who  coaxed  Alle¬ 
gation  home  in  the  Regency 
Hurdle  for  Martin  Pipe  might 
not  be  the  same  man  who  left 
the  tightknit  community  of 
National  Hunt  racing  a 
month  ago  for  an  enforced 


HUGH  ROUP  »=nng 


leading  jockeys 


Adnan  Maguwe.. 

^  Richard  Dunwoody . 
4*  Norman  Williamson., 
Jamie  Osborne .. 

Peler  Nn/en  . 

Oai/ia  Bndgwaier  .... 
Warren  Mansion .... 

Mark  Dwyer  . 

Tony  Dobbm  . 


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view  through  the  other  end  of 
die  telescope. 

Much  has  happened  to 
Dunwoody  in  the  intermis¬ 
sion.  things  which  pur  the 
matter  of  how  many  winners 
he  has  given  up.  how  much 
money  he  has  lost  in  rides  and 
winnings,  how  much  closer 
Adrian  Maguire  has  inched  in 
the  all-consuming  race  for  the 
jockeys’  title  (the  score  stands 
at  Maguire  114- Dunwoody 
1 13).  all  the  tittle-tattle  and  the 
nonsense  which  makes  Nat¬ 
ional  Hunt  racing  such  a 
unique  and  exclusive  world, 
into  telling  perspective. 

One  message  on  the 
answerphone  began  the  pro¬ 
cess  of  reflection.  It  was  from 
Barry  Kelly,  a  trainer  and  an 
old  friend  from  way  back,  and 
it  was  inviting  Dunwoody  to 
his  wedding.  “He  said  now  I 
had  a  holiday  I  could  come 
after  all."  Dunwoody  recalled 
yesterday  in  the  cramped  lob¬ 
by  of  the  weighing  room  at 
Warwick. 

The  words  must  have  hit 
a  Dunwoody  like  a  jackham- 
mer.  He  had  not  been  home 
for  a  few  days  because  he  had 
to  attend  a  funeral  in  Ireland, 
the  funeral  of  Barry  Kelly, 
who  had  been  killed  in  a  car 
crash  with  his  fiance  just  a  few 
days  before  their  wedding. 
“Something  like  that  makes 
you  realise  that  you’re  only 
here  for  a  short  time,  so  you 
may  as  well  enjoy  it  It  was  as 
much  of  a  lesson  as  anything. 

I  have  had  a  great  career  and 


Dunwoody  coaxes  Allegation  over  the  last  on  his  way  to  making  a  winning  return  at  Warwick  yesterday  after  his  30-day  suspension 


enjoyed  some  great  moments, 
but  that  was  a  reminder  that 
you  can  get  so  wrapped  in 
your  own  little  world,  have 
such  tunnel  vision,  that  you 
don’t  realise  what's  going  on 
anywhere  else.” 

To  escape  from  the  vortex,  to 
find  a  better  perspective. 
Dunwoody  went  siding  twice 
and  took  up  an  invitation  to 
ride  out  for  the  Maktoums’ 
winter  stable  in  Dubai.  He 
entered  other  worlds, 
showjumping  with  Nick  Skel¬ 


ton.  talked  long  and  hard  to 
David  Coulthard,  who  just  a 
few  miles  to  the  south  was 
unveiling  the  new  Williams 
formula  one  car  and  basked  in 
his  freedom,  sparing  no 
thought  for  his  colleagues 
slogging  through  the  mid¬ 
winter  mud.  He  did  not  waich 
a  day’s  racing.  “What's  the 
point?  You  can’t  do  anything 
about  it." 

“I  really  enjoyed  getting 
away  from  it  all.  meeting 
people  in  other  areas  of  life. 


having  the  time  to  discuss 
mutual  interests,  finding  out 
whether  the  pressure  is  the 
same.  I  can  look  you  in  the  eye 
and  say  1  wouldn’t  have 
missed  that  time  off  for  the 
anything."  Not  even  for  the 
thrill  of  20  more  winners?  "I 
got  my  thrills  in  other  ways." 
And  he  did  look  me  in  the  eye 
and  meant  every  word,  even 
though  he  had  just  remem¬ 
bered,  through  an  eight-length 
victory,  why  it  was  he  enjoyed 
riding  so  much  and  just 


reminded  everyone  else  how 
ridiculously  easy  he  makes  his 
job  look 

Not  that  he  is  about  to  step 
down  from  his  kingdom.  “I'll 
be  as  committed  to  riding 
winners  as  ever.  I’m  certainly 
not  going  to  hand  it  to  Adrian 
[Maguire]." 

It  is  just  that  the  days  of 
rushing  round  the  country  for 
the  sake  of  just  one  more 
winner,  the  hours  of  masoch¬ 
ism  spent  sweating  in  the 
sauna  to  shed  that  one  last 


Club  approves  new  penalty  structure 


A  NEW  penalty  structure  designed  to  rid 
racing  of  non-briers  by  introducing  bans 
for  racehorses  was  granted  final  approv¬ 
al  by  foe  Jockey  Club  yesterday. 

To  be  introduced  on  March  2.  ft  will 
provide  local  stewards  with  more  power 
to  deal  with  offences  committed  on  the 
racecourse-  As  a  result,  jockeys  will  risk 
bans  of  up  to  two  weeks  for  offences  that 
previously  incurred  fines. 

For  the  first  time  horses  involved  in 
any  attempt  to  deceive  foe  handicapper 
or  set  up  a  future  coup  can  be  suspended 
for  30  days.  The  guilty  rider  will  also  be 
banned  and  the  trainer  fined. 


Jockey  Club  stewards  authorised  the 
recommendations  of  its  disciplinary  com¬ 
mittee.  first  published  a  month  ago  and 
which  attempt  to  ensure  the  punishment 
fits  the  offence,  after  discussions  with  the 
sport's  associations. 

Announcing  foe  structure,  a  Jockey 
Club  spokesman  said:  “The  stewards 
decided  that  replacing  fines  with  periods 
of  suspension  was  a  fair  and  more 
effective  deterrent  and  that  the  new 
penalties  would  have  a  positive  impact 
on  foe  problem  of  non-triers. 

“They  have  therefore  decided  that 
from  March  2.  stewards  of  meetings  will 


be  given  the  power  to  impose  suspen¬ 
sions  on  riders,  suspend  horses  from 
running  and  increase  the  penalties  for 
trainers  for  breaches  of  Rule  151. 

“Local  stewards  will  also  have  the 
power  to  impose  suspensions  on  riders 
for  misjudgment,  mistaking  the  distance 
of  the  race,  taking  the  wrong  course  or 
foiling  to  weigh  in.” 

Most  concerned  by  the  proposals  was 
the  Jockeys’  Association,  which  claimed 
its  members  were  being  “singled  out" 
and  argued  that  by  not  introducing 
suspensions  for  trainers,  riders  would 
cany  the  can  for  breaches  of  rule  151. 


pound,  might  be  over.  Dun- 
woody's  weight,  always  the 
problem  for  a  tall  man.  has 
risen  to  just  under  11  stone  and 
the  battle  to  get  down  to  ten 
stone  again,  he  feels,  is  just  not 
worth  fighting  anymore. 

“What’s  the  sense  in  spend¬ 
ing  three  hours  in  the  sauna? 
It's  not  good  for  you.  mentally 
or  physically.  I  don't  see  the 
point.”  He  thought  a  compro¬ 
mise  of  lOst  61b  would  be 
sensible.  “1  might  even  get 
lower  than  that,  but  I'm  not 
going  to  ruin  myself." 

Luke  Harvey,  whose  ven¬ 
ture  up  foe  inside  of  the 
champion  led  to  the  30-day 
ban,  will  need  some  convinc¬ 
ing  of  Dun  woody's  changing 
priorities.  He  would  be  ad¬ 
vised  not  to  test  them. 
Dunwoody  himself  acknowl¬ 
edged  he  might  be  caught  up 
in  foe  spiral  once  more.  But 
you  sense  it  would  be  against 
his  better  judgment 

"Ask  me  again  in  a  month 
when  Cheltenham  and  Ain- 
tree  are  round  the  comer.  1 
might  be  the  same  as  ever. 
But  foe  last  four  weeks  have 
opened  my  eyes  to  another 
way  of  life." 


THUNDERER 

t.40  Whitebormet  2.10  Cobb  Gate.  2.40  Mister 
Oddy.  3.10  Minster's  Madam.  3.40  Cool  Dawn.  4.10 
CRABBY  BILL  (nap).  4.40  River  Bounty. 


The  Times  Private  Handtaapper’s  top  rating: 
4.40  RIVER  BOUNTY. 


Brian  Beei:  3.40  Cool  Dawn.  4.40  River  Bounty. 


GOING:  SOFT.  HEAVY  IN  PLACES  (CHASE  COURSE); 

HEAVY  (HURDLES)  _ SIS 


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P,W  ALDWCK  COLONNADE  15  M  IMg  8-10-0. —  --  A  Naffre  » 
i*  PFP-  rajCFS  PET  282  A  Hearts  5-10-0  J  RtoaPag  - 

15  POOP  CHURCH  STAR  37  (B)JBndoolMD-O  Rachel  Brtogm  (7)  - 
9-2  Chose.  6-1  Eutoor.  7-i  Mutafiim.  6-1  WhiteCnmaL  10-1  fflw 
Leven.  10-1  Spanish  Rdutje.  AmWWrtBnones.  12-1  othoi- 


2.1 0  STANFORD  SELLING  HANDICAP  HURDLE 

(£1,656:  2m  If  110yd)  (12) 

1  P3-0  DHBSBAY  19F  fB.DP.tSj  J  BnOgei  7-1i-lD_  D  Q’SiWvan  90 

3  4320  COBB  GATE  14  00.6)  9  SWW  7-1 1-0 -  M  SWms  93 

4  P343  KNYAZ  44  flLS)  Mre  L  MM :  5-10-13 .  “ujwB  1 

5  -P20  MARAAfW  55  6  EhrtflM  B-’&’MJ  -  - HPW«  W 

9  «4  CHEWLEY  Lfcffi  94 

ID  03U4  STAFimiflD  LADY  16  J  Wore  7-lfW - WMcfartart  94 

11  DUO  BAMfH44  Atewes5-HHj— — . . 

13  600-  VERRO  116F  K  Bishop  B-1D-0. -  Liwwy 

7-2  Cwwtey  dancer.  S-i  hnyat  6-1  Baited  Pitol  Ttoti*  Cham.  M  oBm 

2.40  GAY  RECORD  CHALLENGE  TROPHY 

(Handicap  chase:  E2.587: 2m)  (6) 

‘  *  T  Jwb 


3  1231  COURT RAHEH5f|D-F.6^B^w  13-11-0 “ 

W  Msa  Odav  94  Court  Rtiner.  U-<  ^  8-1  rilm' _ _ 

BUNKERED  RBST  TIME:  TSS 

Hampton:  2.00  Severn  L>aJe  330  Johns  Ad. 


3.10  LYMPNE  NOVICES  CLAIMING  HURDLE 

(£2,167: 2m  611 10yd)  (It) 

1  WP  H  D®1  FWBBSHF  34  (B)  S  Sherwood  7-11-12  J  Oston*  - 


2  -C3P  CARABUCK  16R  Ron*  B-11-7 _ _ _  E  Mjrpfty  87 

3  2220  FAST  RUN  18  (FJJfcUtns  7-11-7 . .  S  Curran  pj  95 

4  0004  UPWARD SURfiEBF  Bailey 5- 11-8  .  —  NIMBamsonBO 

5  M0  DUNLR  15  P  Hedtert  6-11-5 -  -  S  Bumwon  - 

6  P  SNOkffiERG  13  J  Whyte  5-11-5-  . JRItovanagh  - 

7  -000  WITH  GUSTO  19F  J  Bridget  B-114  . D0vSi*wn  - 

8  030P  CanCULLEY16fBlBH0M5-H-2..  - A  S  Small  88 

9  ON  TRYING  697P  IH  U  IteCoUl  8-H-O  G  MeCoufl  - 


10  0056  SAFFR0HR1VB 20 OOWGU Turner  4-104  MGntWis  171  M 

11  0214  MISTER'S  MADAM  34  (H£)  R  Simeon  4-10-3  D  @ 

5-2  Mnsw's  Uadaa  7-2  Fas)  Run.  5-1  CjnDut*.  Saftw  River,  fl-i  olhen 


3.40  TBfIHIDBI  MAIDEN  HUNTERS  CHASE 

(Amateus:  £1.126: 2m  5f)  (9) 

1  32  BW1YHYH0  HP  P  Venna  8-12-7 .  P  Hanfco-Joms  (5)  - 

2  4U-P  COMBE  F01EV  3BP  Mis  P  Tnrolrv  9- 12-7 .  P  TownsJei’  17}  - 

3  B-11  C001  DAWN ISPlGLSIHWMbtBBd 7-12-7 Mss DHarth(jf7i  - 

4  12/2  LfBIED  IIP  (F.&5)  V  flWWB  10-12-7 - TlfcGtthvFl  - 

5  234-  JMR  G0LBHTLV  334  (G.S)  l#j  S  CoWen  B-12-7 

Miss  J  Cototei  (7)94 

5  31 -P  PEA  SAL  3BP  (F5J  UsAFamnl  12-12-7  _  C  Gorton  {7i  - 

7  31/P  PMQCOO 6 (FJDO-anen 8-12-7 - SBrown(7l  - 

8  314-  RUSTY  RALS  2BB  (F.GL5)  G  Smith  13-12-7  Mrs  N  ledger  (71  75 

9  21-3  ST  LAYCAR  IBP  ItSU  Pooh  10-12-7 -  AGreifl(7)ffl 

10-11  Cool  Caen,  4-1  Mi  Gtfghtfy.  8-1  Lend.  12-1  BNlytHfio  14-1  utners. 


4.1 0  FOLKESTONE  HANDICAP  HURDLE 

(£2,422:  2m  GI1 10yd)  (13) 


430- 

113- 

44-3 

KIR 

3/44 

P42 

R123 

-PP0 

3-PO 

-an 

FD32 

FTPP 

VIA 


ALL  JffF  300  (FAS)  CBrnofc  11-11-10 - G  Bra*y  - 

THERMAL  WARRIOR  309  (S)  J  «fl  7-10-13  -  .  T  brvttetrr  93 
CRABBY  BLL  4  (VJ3,G.S|  kfcs  B  Sanden  8-10-7  A  Dtcten  98 

CARFAX 5  [B.CO.OS) R 10-10-6  . A55mahS5 

OFFICER  CADET  58  (CD.&Sl  Mn  L  Jewefl  HO-O  A  Uagun  90 

JUST  A  SECOND  11 C  tom  10-10-0 . A  P  McCoy  (3)  91 

LYWG  EYES  20  (S)  WCM  Tmrw  4-10-0..  .  UGntWu  (7)  92 
DSMNG  VALLEY  11  (B.F.GJI  A  Jo«a  lO-ID-O  .  L  Haney  90 
SCENT  OF  BATHE  35  (C.S)  ¥  Haynes  7-10-0....  D  Synne  85 
VILA  PARK  IB  (DE.S)  G  Knteri  13-10-0  ..  M  PenHt  89 
PLACE  STEPHANS  44  (SI  R  Rom  7-HMJ  .  D  Careen  (71  ® 

CYPRUS 58  (F.G)  Ifcs J Dwte  7-10-0 - SCurran(3l  -- 

ROWLANDSONS  GOLD  20  [G.S1GL  Moore  5-1M0EaHa(jrB  93 


4-1  Jus!  A  SeamL  9-2  Cntty  BN,  5-1  AH  Jefl.  Thermal  Warner  b-l  lying  Eyes. 
B-I  Odor  Cadei  id-1  Ptee  Septtme.  12-1  Wla  Pan  14-1  otfwn 


10  EAST  KENT  OPEN  HUNTERS  CHASE 

sure:  £1.618: 3m  21)  (6) 

2-3  BREEN  TIMES  12JLS)  N  Gasde*  10-12-7  _  W  Ramsay  17)  75 
2-3  MR  MURDOCK  39r  (F.GJ51  H  Wrtdead  10-12-7  P  Henley  0  31 
11-3  SNOWY LANE  IBP  (V.G.S)  R  Sknpsen  7-12-7  E  VWams  (7)  2 
E-l  RMS  BOUNTY  fi  (F.G.S)  C  Bints  9-124  ..  E  James  [7)  g 
1«.  NO  FEZ  288  (CD.F.G.S)  Mr.  D  OnssaU  9-12-2  P  hartmg  pi  64 
SKMMLL  18P  (BJMLS)  J  Poner  11-12-0 


10-11  Finer  Bounty  3-1  Mr  UntoL  7-1  Grean  Tenes  Mo  Fis  l2-l  Swnry  Une 
33-1  SbmnllL 


COURSE  SPECIALISTS 


AMSTS:  N  Henderson.  4  wimeu  Irani  IB nnnen.  22.2V  R  Row. 
iwn  42. 19.W.  D  6nssNi.  9  Iran  49. 184%  Only  dual  fliers. 
CKEYS:  M  Ricftads.  8  erinnere  from  28  tides.  2&BV  R  Dunwoody. 
ram  SO,  18  DV  A  Uaguee.  10  Kcm  58. 172V.  E  MaWiy.  3  Hot 
16  n.  L  Harvey.  3  Horn  18. 16  7*.  M  Perm.  5  Horn  31. 16.11 


IPHSTOwllwffl 


One  Man  shortens  to  6-4 


ONE  MAN,  foe  ante-post 
favourite  for  the  Racing  Post 
Chase  at  Kempton.  is  down  to 
6-4  from  11-4  for  Saturday’s 
race  with  William  Hill.  They 
also  removed  Monsieur  Le 
Cure  from  their  list  in  the 
belief  that  he  is  more  likely  lo 
run  in  foe  Jim  Fond  Chase  at 
Wincanton  tomorrow. 


William  Hill's  latest  bet¬ 
ting:  6-4  One  Man  (from  11—4), 
6-1  Algan,  Y'al  D’Alene  (from 
12-1).  7-J  Zeta’s  Lad,  8-1  Amtrak 
Express.  10-1  Lusty  Light, 

Sheer  Ability.  Whispering 
SteeL  12-1  Crystal  Spirit  16-1 
Antonin  (from  2M).  SoutoolL 
33-J  Cache  Fleur.  40-J  Forest 
Sun. 


WOLVERHAMPTON 

THUNDERER 

2.00  Hand  Craft  2.30  Spencer's  Reverme.  3.00 
Sarasi.  3.30  Chimborazo.  4.00  Summer  Villa  4.30 
Leigh  Crofter. 

Our  Newmarket  Correspondent:  2.00  Hand  Craft. 
3.00  GRAND  SELECTION  (nap).  3.30  BerrfleeL 


GOING:  STANDARD  DRAW:  NO  ADVANTAGE  SIS 


3.30  PH1LHAC  STOPCOCK  HANDICAP 

(£5.602: 1m  40  (9) 

401  61-2  CHATHAM  ISLAM)  42  (D  C  Brtaki  7-10-0 —  BDovtal 

402  6-01  HU2AH  35  rcar.OS)  R  Bastfem  7-9-7_  H  Basknan  (51 3 

403  Ml  N0UFAR1 14  (C0.6)  R  FtfllwiiMl  L9-1 - Tim 4 

404  0-11  BBtflEET  38  (D.&S)  R  Anottng  4-9-1 - L  Dettori  8 

405  0142  MB4IALASANYTHM  7  (C.D.G.S)  A  Bailey  6-8-11  A  Madcay  5 

406  220-  CHM8ORAZ0  139  B  McMati  4-8-9 - fl  Cochrane  B 

407  1W1  *W  m  14  (CD.&S)  L  WeymK  4-8-7 - J  Stock  7 

408  0-43  JOrtB  ACT  21  (V^jD  Hsjdn  Jonas  5-8-6 — . —  JW«w8r9 

409  1-13  5U4AAT  23  (CD.BF&S1  Mrs  M  Rewley  4-fl-4„.  JQdm? 
7-2  Oatan  IsbnL  4-1  BenSeeL  NMbl.  9-2  HBnh.  7-1  Menbfesamttn.  B-1 
Stmsn.  10-1  Ctmtarazo.  12-1  John  AcL  Ne»  hi 


2 .00  PHILMAC  VALVE  MEDIAN  AUCTION  MAIDEN 
STAKES  (£3.010: 70  (6  runners) 

101  20-5  MARY'S  CASE  4  M  Jofttsoti  5-9-10 . . TWBama5 

IOC  40  SEVERN  GALE  14  (B)  K  WTtffl  5-9-5 -  ..  J  Wearer  2 

103  55-  D0MT  FORGET  CURTIS  126  J  Fjnstan  3-8-6.. ..  0  Harrison  6 

104  HAM)  CRAFT  IV  HagfK  3-6-6-— . .  LDeriOnS 

105  32  NUTHATCH  15  MUsner  3-8-1  .  C  Adamson  (7)  1 

IK  400-  SHARP  HOLLY  107  i  Barnes  3-8-1 - -  S  Santo*  (3)  4 

7-4  Hand  Craft.  3-1  tor  forga  Curts,  5-1  May  s  Case.  6-1  Nidadi  Severn 
Gale.  14-1  Shan  HrJtj 


2.30  PHILMAC  FTTTING  CLAIMING  STAKES 

(£2,749: 7f)  (6) 

201  1345  CS1EAM  CARRIER  9  (COJ.G)  J  O'Shea  7-8-12 

Amanda  Satders  (7)  6 

3E  2-11  SPENCSl'S  REVENGE  22  (0.G)  Lad  Huiwufloi  6-B-11 

LDetM2 

203  0130  ARMXLLY  7  (B.CD.B)  B  MtsSmn  4-08 . R  Cocrtam  1 

204  000-  BACK5TABBER  4J  (G)  Mbs  S  Witten  5-88  .  -  J  Sort  (5)  5 

205  0553  VEL0CE  13  (V.D.F.G)  A  Ballry  7-8-B  _  Angrt  Ea»nore  (7)  3 

206  5043  DBR0B  14  (C.G)  D  Haydn  Jones  4-M .  A  Mactay  4 

6-4  Spenafs  Rntnge.  7-2  Dieam  Canter.  4-1  AmdMy-  5-1  DetraU,  7-1  Vetoes. 
16-1  Bactsattxr 


4.00  PHILMAC  PLU6C0CK  SELLING  STAKES 

(3-Y-O:  £2,612: 1m  100yd)  (10) 

501  0655  GKFY  7  (B.D.G)  B  Uewrtyr  9-3 -  D  Harrison  4 

502  1320  0000  SO  FA  11  (D.G)  C  Alien  9-3 - MBaW(5)7 

503  -251  HRQV  PROTEGE  23  (D.S)  R  AmtslraBB  9-3  URtamerB 

504  000-  CHADLBGH  WALK 58  R  HoUttol  8-12. . .  ThmIO 

505  5021  DOWD04CY7  (C£)  J  ndering  8-12 -  N  Cailsto  3 

506  4140  FAHOlAJje)  R  Ows  B-12 . GDutWdZ 

507  3304  LAWBU5TEH  6  (B)  WWfli  8-12 - L  Dettcfl  B 

506  (Ml  SUMMER  VILA  2JG)  P  Hasttn  8-12 -  J  Weaver  5 

509  -003  SWEET  CHEAP  PET  7  (V/.6)  J  Deny  8-12 - B  Carter  6 

510  0  BERNARD  STAR  7  BUanftyn  8-7 -  DRMcCaoe(3)1 

9- 4  Summer  Wfa,  3-1  Kim  Protege.  5-1  Good  So  Fa.  Lardactoi.  B-1  Domtoncy, 

10- 1  Smm  Cneap  PW.  Gtgfr.  12-1  otm 


4.30  PHILMAC  RAPID  FIX  HANDICAP 

(£3,539: 51)  (5) 

601  4135  L0S1  CROFTER  5  (B.CO.F.ejj)  P  Cundri  6-10-0  J  Weaver  4 
603  3-26  PRESS  TWBBi  18 pf,aS)J  Berry  5-1  (W> . ..  G  Carter  1 

603  GOO  LORD  SKY151  A  Batoy  4-9-7 - LDOW12 

604  ^20  KALAfl  22  P JXWJ.S)  0  Qapmai  6-9-2  —  CT8aptot7)S 
SOS  -611  SCORED  AGAM  14  (CO^ASIMHeabvais  5-9-1 

Amanda  Sanders  (7)  3 

cm  Sored  Apo.  5-2  Leigh  Crater.  7-2  Prase  Die  Bel.  5-1  Kate.  Lord  Sky 


3.00  PHILMAC  CONNECTOR  HANDICAP 

(3-Y-O:  £4,046. 1m  If  79yd)  (5) 

301  2146  K0MREYEV  DANCER  4  (C.BFGl  A  Baksy  9-7 J  Weaver  4 

302  ill-  UBTER  RRE  EYES  92  (GlS)  C  Bnliaai  9-B -  B  Doyle  1 

303  2111  GRAND  SELECTION  4  (C.G)  M  Bell  9-2  t5er)  G  Farina  m  3 

304  431-  WHAT  A  NIGHTMARE  130  (C.G)  J  Gtover  8-11 

Dean  McKooten  2 

JOS  2-14  SARAS  36  (BF.G)?  Cole  B-l  l .  TQi*n5 

6-4  Grand  defection,  rt-4  Utter  Pre  Eyas.  5-1  Stoasi  6-1  KOmyn  Dancer. 
Wtai  A  Wghtriara 


COURSE  SPECIALISTS 


TRAWER&  R  Basil  man.  5  reman  Horn  16  nmera.  31.3V  W 
Hjflgas.  4  (Fan  13.  308%;  M  Johnston,  20  tom  66.  294%.  M 
Hertorr-Ote.  4  tram  14.  286%;  Mr,  M  FtevUey.  9  bnr  32.  281%; 
Lord  Huntingdon.  12  Iwn  5a  24  0%. 

JOCKEYS;  H  Basfimaa  4  winners  tom  ID  rides,  40  0%  Amanda 
Sanders.  3  from  12. 25  0%,  J  weave,  40  Irara  IBi.  24.8%.  GOutf  aid. 
ID  tom  46. 21.7%;  L  Drtori.  24  from  120. 200%;  R  Codnne.  II 
from  6B.  16.2%. 


RESULTS 


Warwick 

Going:  sett  (chaso  course i:  «jH  wen  heavy 
patches  (hurtles  i 

2.00  (3m  21  chi  i.  Double  SA  (Mr  R  Trekig- 
□en.  1-10 lav).  2.Ftony  HS  (22-11.3.  S^eai- 
sinn  (14-11  6  ran  Del  cSsr  RWfltans  Tow 
El  10  El  10.  E3  40  DF  £3.20.  CSF  £3  5e3 


ZJ30  pm  u  110yd  Ixflei  1.  Alegadon  (R 
Dunwoody.  13-6  lav.  FUcflard  Evans's  nap 
and  Private  HanrtcappWs  lop  raring).  2. 
Top Scm (ii-4j; 3. Hnh Grade  120-1)  gran 
81.  2 0i  M  Pipe  Tote  £260.  £1  30.  £1  50. 
£150  DF  £360.  CSF.E&56 


300  (3m  3  chi  1.  GreenNI  Tare  Away 
rPotef  Hobbs  7-2)  Z  CoKenny  Boy  M 1-3. 
3.  Scoaon  Bante  (6-4  lav)  6  ran  UR  Di 
Motto.  Ibt.  2SI  P  Hobbs  Toie  £5  30. 
LI  50.  £2  OO  DF.  £6  Vi  CSF  £20  74 


3JJ0  (2m  41 110yd  hdtel  1.  Puny  Ftoad  (A 
Maouve.  4-1 1  lain  2.  Prime  01  Lite  (8-11. 3. 
Better  Byihe  Glass  (9-i|  5  ran  301. 2B ID 
Nrdxssor  To»-  £1.40  £1^0.  £1  80  DF 
£2  40  CSF  £3.53 


4.00  (3m  bdtoi  1.  Mariner's  Air  IN 
Williamson,  2-1  lav).  2.  Amc  Wings  (7-11. 3, 
Soiflhanpfon  0-1)  7  ran  121.  hd.  J 
Spearing.  Toie  £2  60.  C2-00.  £2  30  DF 
E9  20  CSF.  £1400 


4JO  [2m  41  110yd  cni  1.  Easy  Buck  (C 
Maude.  Ei,ens  lavi.  2.  Gay  Rutiian  (7-1).  3, 
Frio  i^oncord  p-1).  6  ran  2^.  4|  N 
Gaseiee.  Foie-  £2.10.  Cl  60.  £1  fid  DF 
£5  60  CSF  £8  73 


5.00  (2m  Ran  1.  Den  tea's  Profiles  (Mr  M 
Rfrnell.  9-2);  2.  Lord  McMurrouph  (B-11: 3. 
Cwiles  CavaSer  (ll-li  irtermagic  2-1  tav 
19  ran  61.  Ill  N  TwiGtorvDavtes  Tale: 
£520:  E22U.  £2.00.  £4  30.  DF  £22.40. 
CSF  £42.10 

Placepot  £15.00.  Quadpoc  dim 

Lingfield  Park 

Going:  standard 

2^0  (im)  i.  Cannizaro  iL  Denori.  9-21: 2. 
Vaslav  Nijinsky  (13-2).  1  Top  Fela  (11-4 
tav).  tan.  31.  iw  B  Wiliams.  ToIb. 
£590.  £120.  £2.10.  £120  DF:  £20  80 
CSF:  £33  64 


r  RICHARD  EVANS  .: 


Nap:  THORNTON  GATE 
(1_S0  Sedgeficld) 

Next  best:  Mister  Oddy 

(2.40  Folkestone) 

Richaid  Evans  napped  Allegation  (ta¬ 
il)  a i  1/VamicL  yesterday,  vrinte  The 
Tiroes  Phvaiu  Handicapper  (GeraW 
Huh  hard)  had  Roman  Reef  (10-11  and 
Jaraab  (9- 1 1  among  rts  winning  top- 
ratings  ai  bnefietd 


2.50  dm  2f)  i.  Maanun  (A  Clark.  19-I0|t- 
tav);  2,  Awesome  Power  (11-iOI-fav).  3. 
Tapalch  (10-1)  5  ran.  1*1.  51  R  O  auttvan. 
T«e-  £180.  £100.  £1000.  DF:  £120. 
CSF:  E2.49. 

320  dm  2f)  i.  Roman  Reel  (J  Quinn, 
10-1).  2.  Secrsi  AJy  (5-2);  3,  Prince  Danzig 
(7-1).  Braques!  9-4  fav.  9  ran  Hd.  2L  G  L 
Moore  Toie-  £11.70:  £2.40.  £1  20.  £2.50. 
DF:  £29  50  Tno  £87  90.  CSF:  £32.77 
Tricasl:  £170.81. 

3^0  (60  T.  Monttmue  Dawson  (S 
Drowne.  9-2  |l-fav):  2.  Bon  Secret  (6-1);  a. 
Black  Shadow  (5-1 1.  Das  Island  9-2>fav 
B  ran.  Ht  fcl  Mrs  N  Macautev  Tote-  £5.80; 
£320.  £150.  £150.  DF  £15.90.  CSF 
£26.03  Trtcasr  £10682 
420  (im)  1,  Perilous  PUgM  Weaver. 
9-4  tav.  Thunderer's  nap);  2.  Kkmegad 
Ktd(4-1):  3.  F’anchellita  (10-1)  12  ran  Jil. 
3W.  W  Mufr.  Tola:  £3.10:  £1.10.  £190. 
£260  DF  £5.80  Trio.  £4390.  CSF: 
Ell. 71  Tntasi.  £7127. 

4S0  (im  4l)  i.  Jaraab  (S  WHtwonh.  9-1): 
£  Sleeptre  (9-1 1;  3.  IWrifraa  (5-2  few).  12 
ran.  31.  isL  G  Lams.  Toie:  £9.70;  £1.90, 
£1.50.  £150.  DF  £93.10  Trio.  £90.10. 
CSF  £87 17  Trtcast  £246  B2. 

Jackpot:  not  wMI  (pod  Of  £2a^7DJBS 
carried  (onward  to  Wolverhampton 
today). 

Placepot  £34.00. 

Quadpot  £13.90. 


SEDGEFIELD 


THUNDERER 


1.50  Wee  Wizard 
2^0  Grace  Card 

2.50  Son  Of  Iris 


3.20  Betvie  House 
3.50  Dorlfn  Castle 

4.20  Youandi 


Brian  Beel:  3-20  WQy  wniiam. 


^  GUIDE  TO  OUR  IN-UN BRACECABp 


101  T13143  GOOD  TNE5 13  (BFF.&S)  (Mra  D  Rottnswil  B  Hall  124) _ BWtet(7)  88 

Rxecvd  nunter  Sh-floure  tonti  IF  —  Wl  P  — 

□died  op.  u  — instated  rater  B  —  brown 
dmn.  E  —  sfrooeri  up  R  — nerused  D  — 

■fcquafed)  Horse' 5  name  Oars  ante  tot 
autos  F  if  Hal  (B  — Winters  V— visor  H  — 
hoott  E  —  EyesnefrL  C — araca  smnei.  D  — 

(Usance  sums  CO  —  coise  aid  dd&nce 


Bf  —  beam  Broonto  m  toe»  raw) 
Grano  on  siMdi  honss  ias  son  (F  —  firm.  0onf  to 
Brm,  hart.  G  —  good  5  — roil,  flood  m  soft 
beavyl.  Omer  n  bmetets.  Tianer  Age  and 
mghL  Mer  phis  any  aHorence.  He  Times 
Private  Handnappa’s  tong 


GOING:  GOOD  TO  SOFT  (SOFT  PATCHES) 


SIS 


1  .50  HARRY  LAKE  MEMORIAL  HANDICAP  HURDLE 

(£2,975;  2m  II  110yd)  (10  ronneis) 

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23Z-015  ARAGON  AYR  19  (S)  (Kslao  Martas  Lmrtyere  CU»  PMoraein  7-12-0  Bttatlng  (51  94 

53101  THORNTON  GATE  22  (G£) (T Bmap  M H  Easterty  6-11-8 _ LWyv  88 

7S254SD  Wff  WOW  166 (FAS)  OVnEOBna^ramri)  MB»KS 6-11-7 _ 6081* (7)  90 

Z422KF3  SRMJAYA 13  (BFJ.G)  (K  HWifcri  Us  M  Revdcy  BIO-13  . .  PMien  97 

346162  TWIN  FALLS  3Z  (Gl  (Mrs  5  Mocrai  G  Moae  4-10-11 _  J  Ctoaohan  91 

310  DOCKMASTER  5fi  (BF.S)  (J  Goman)  Mffi  M Udfigan 4-10-4 _ RltianGuBSt  M 

043533  SHAHGRAM  23  (COS)  Met  CM  Damn)  F  Bsmiwtt  MM _ R  Senna  9 

123  HNTAIfl  32  (Si  (S  Tanamer)  T  Domety  5-10-0 . . .  T  Bey  (3)  94 

350131  SUPS1H00  11  ICD.51  (R  Cnotpi  R  Craop  4-10-0 . . .  F  Leary  (5)  94 

1014-50  SCAJfflA  58  (S)  (B  Gorton]  D  Garakn  7-10-0 _  E  Husbaid  (5)  SB 

tong  frandkap  KMavi  9-U  Superhoo  9-13.  Scam  9-7 

BETTING;  3-1  Ttwrtcn  Gale.  4-1  Aragon  Ayr.  5-1  Twi  Fate.  6-1  Wee  Wcad.  M  Mnaifl.  B-1  SrMpya. 
SiBfioran.  10-1  Doctroae.  <2-i  ofl*re 

1994:  lERNG  ABANDONED  —  SNOW 


FORM  FOCUS 


ARAGON  AYR  beat  Rebel  tOng  neck  m  lO-nmef 
handicap  hunt  i  Ayr  (2m  sod)  on  penuTOnraie 
sari.  THOUfflON  GATE  tea  Up  En  Frames  3W  n 
a  14-furer  rant  tudta  at  Ednburti  (2m.  aood 
to  sofr).  SIWUAYA 141 3rd  M 12  to  Pmecone  Peter 
in  a  Ctohnmg  lurito  at  Himbnadon  i2m  HIM. 
good  to  still  TWU  FALLS  3J  2nd  oM3  to  Kn) 


Athenian  in  a  hamhap  tude  a  Catena  (2m. 
tearyi  Mill  KWTAW  (416  better  til)  71  3rd 
D0CKMASTB1  tea  LtcnS  2i  n  a  IB-rramer 
(uvailtt  tude  ai  Nowgpam  (3m.  good  to  am  on 
penuMmau  sort  SUPmHOO  tea  Hot  Punch  61  in 
a  16-nma  filing  tuuie  a  Cattenck  (2m.  heavy) 
SsteOnar  TWW  FALLS  (nap) 


2.20  NORTH  EAST  RACING  CLUB  NOVICES  CHASE 

(£2.997:  3m  3fl  (13  mnnets)  ' 

1  PP5  ALV  DALEY  75  (M  Tnfctl)  J  Johnson  7-11-12 . .  .  .  D  Bralgwaer  34 

2  wain  BAWCKSTI  2D  (T  rtronest  M  W  tosemy  7-11-12— . .  R  Gantcy  - 

3  2120-PO  CARSON  CITY  20  <E)  IJ  L  Frsli  LU)  l*S  M  tedfly  8-11-12  ...  N  Smith  - 

4  POO-155  GERRYMANDER  15  <H  Oran  M  Hammond  9-n-i?  .  A  DoUtn  - 

5  1I/T2SY  GRACE  CARO  656F  SLS)  (G  Pamton)  Mr,  M  Rwefcy  9-11-12 _ _  P  Nhen  - 

6  460300  GRUTWS  BAR  43  (M  Smtii)  Mrs  P  Sly  7-11-12 _  R  Matey  - 

7  4/5QP5  MISTER  HOCHBERG  30  (V/S)  (Ma  V  toed)  Ms  V  tort  9-11-12  B  Sony  73 

8  D2/P4U0  ONE  FOR  THE  Ct»  57  (G5)  (R  WhSatol  R  WWdto  7-11-12  Ml  S  WMaker  - 

9  &U3824  SNOOK  PONT  15  (I  Jordon)  D  Larrdb  8-11-12 _ _  I*  A  Manas  (7)  ® 

10  50F0F  TUDOR  FELLOW  20  l  J  ttrte)  J  (tote  6-11-12 _  — .  K  Jones  - 

11  45*420  WHLUfi&ONG  33  (W  Ran)  W  ten  6-11-12 . .  M  Hourioan  9B 

12  Pa**  W0LF5V1LLE  15  (Ems  ti  tat  H  Lai*)  D  ton*  7-11-12 _ _  J  Bute  - 

13  6/430  ESTABLISH  15  W  Hsnrey)  J  Otetb  7-11-7 _ _ _ K  Johnson  SO 

BETFWG;  4-5  Grace  Cad.  9-2  Carson  Cdy.  7-1  GarynaPa  8-1  Snook  Port  12-1  Afr  Datey.  14-1  o«ws 


FORM  FOCUS 


ALY  DALEY  37HI5to  ot  13  to  Toofpood  To  Be  Trite 
m  norice  erase  at  Dorcasief  (3m.  good).  GRACE 
CARD  Ml  2nd  ti  14  to  Sweet  6tow  m  haraicap 
tenfle  ai  Asca  (3m.  heavy)  penmntoB  stot  Jan 
im  SNOOK  PONT  261  48i  ol  13  to  Bran 
Buccaneer  m  novice  diase  at  Cafefe  (3m.  heavy) 
Mtti  GERRYMANDER  61  5*.  ESTABLISH  331  7th 
aid  WDLFSVLLE  puitod  i*  Previously  12)  2nd  ti 


IB  to  Crank  3bD  to  nonce  chase  a)  Qdkntk  (3m 
II  110yd.  SCO)  wfh  WHLUB&DNS  671  Ttti 
1U00R  FaiSw  Suited  tort  unU  led  5  out  In  an 
ii -runner  novice  chase  won  tor  Fonttem  (2m  51. 
good)  here.  WLLUffiLONG  Ml  2nd  ol  B  to  Highly 
Decwtied  m  a  novices'  iBrthcap  chase  a  Cohort 
(2m  31.  sah)  pninrrab  son. 

SefcCtar  SNOOK  PONT 


2.50  STOKES  LEY  HANDICAP  CHASE  (£3,522:  2m  5f)  (5  rutners) 

1  205/1-12  VLLAflE  REMSt  32  (CO/.S)  (J  Chaste)  P  Cater  8-n-lO _  L  wyer  95 

2  P21-F11  SON  OF  HUS  20  (CO, F.G)  <WG  Systems  Lid)  Ite  M  Reveley  7-M-5  P  Nten  93 

3  324B&-  RUN  PET  RUN  M  ias)  (J  Beck)  0  Nolai  10-11-1 . .  N  IXmQrty  S 

4  5684P0  RSH  QUAY  19  (F.GJS1  (Mre  K  LandH  Mrs  K  tomb  IMO-fl  Mo  S  Ln*  (71  - 

5  (VF-451  ANOTHER  RB)  11  (S)  (W  Raw)  W  Raw  7-10-0 _ M  Hoangan  86 

tong  handcap.  Fish  Owy  9-5.  AnoCwt  Red  9-5. 

BETTING'  4-5  Son  01  kls.  6-4  VJtage  RetadM.  7-1  Amtw  Rad.  8-1  Run  Pel  ton.  20-1  FWi  day. 


FORM  FOCUS 


VLLAGE  RBNDEER  31  3id  ti  10  to  Atonromfry 
Ctdti  to  tmtoap  chase  al  Cateu*  (Sn  u  hravy) 
wdh  FBH  QUAY  (GS>  better  off)  puDnd  up.  Pmn- 
oiteiy  beti  Crass  Cawon  3  to  5-nnier  naraftem 
cha»amaMSeanddEtte)ca(gaodtastill  SON 
OF  HS,  completed  Untile,  bn  integrity  Bay  toi 
In  ID-fuite  nonces'  handicap  chase  okt  course 


an)  (fearce  (good).  RUN  PET  RUN  56V1I  5Bi  ot 
10  to  Gtenshane  to)  in  a  handicap  chase  ti  Penh 
(3m.  good  ro  firm)  wilh  RSH  QUAY  (2*  beler  oil) 
151  m  April  1994  ANOnet  R8)  heti  Hghland 
Poacher  131  *  6-rannet  norite  chase  ai  Ctiteick 
(2m,  heavy). 

SetBCOan:  VILLAS  RBNDBEB 


3.20  S0U1H  DURHAM  MAIDEN  HUNTERS  CHASE 

(Amatews:  £1,995:  2m  5Q  (16  rurniere) 

1  44372-  BBWIE  HOUSE  404  (Us  C  Raines)  K  Hewtey  7-12-0 -  S  Swtera  - 

2  162-P  CHAPEL  ISLAM)  IIP  (G)  IE  n  &  (J  Tier)  F  Tier  8-17-0  -  P  ASdnson  (7)  - 

3  2U4U0-5  ttDNONY  CASTLE  18  (B)  (Mrs  McCoinncs)  Mt3  Uc6uraBS!  9-12-0  C  Bonner  (5)  jM 

4  P3PF-0  CONVINONG  4P  (J  Contatm  J  Comtatft  11-12-0 - P  Cntntanh  (7)  ® 

5  DOtV  OBSE  MARSHALL  613  (J  GreonaU)  P  Cteastoough  7-12-0 - J  Gnool  - 

G  2171-3  DONOVANS  Rffl=  17P  (S)  (Mrs  L  Mastedl  Mra  L  Marshal  9-124)  A  Rotam  (71  - 

7  5533-  RYPff  284P  (C  Soreyl  kfrs  J  5axry  7-12-0 - Ms  J  Storey  0  - 

B  0441  SIAM)  PASHA  118  (Ms  A  Srirtatoto  Urs  A  Saettank  7-12-0  Chris  Wteon  (T)  - 
a  4P/R-  REGAL  SMOKE  340P  (F)  (S  Robinson)  S  Retinsen  9-12-0  S  RoUnson  (7)  - 

10  UU312-  RBflLLBTS  GLORY  3(HP(S)  IMs  MBeaunordl  Ms  A  torell  11-12-0  MrsAFarett  97 

11  4P-56  RYDERS  W&LS  IIP  (F)  (E  Aclll!y4ilin(*>n)  Mrs  M  Morris  8-12-0  K  HMftun  0  - 

12  215-0  SPITS  DELIGHT  14  (F)  (W  Woolley)  E  Wooley  9-12-0 -  E  Worthy  (7)  BO 

13  31-21  IMLY  WIJJAM  IIP  (G.S)  iB  Dfrteon)  I  todtort  5-12-0 -  N  Wtan  p)  - 

14  5PP-  ADVENT  LADY  38ZP  (M  Sams)  M  Sams  8-11-9 - M  Htigh  0  - 

15  112-2  CAROLE'S  DELIGHT  IIP  (GS)  [C  Hotoan)  Mra  L  tort  8-11-9  Mre  L  Wart  (7)  - 

16  00^  FULL  OF  CHAT  19  (Ms  S  MtiAdroQ  Ms  S  McfflcM  6-11-9.  A  Mannas  (7)  - 
BETTING:  7-2  Benw  Han.  9-2  Canto',  BafctfL  5-1  Wily  WUfiam.  Detoe  kteshtii.  8-1  bnl  Pasta.  10-1 
BevUer'S  Gtey.  14-1  Rypte.  20-1  raheo. 


FORM  FOCUS 


BStVE  HOUSE  1W  2W  ol  16  to  Fou  D«p  In  a 
norice  frudle  ti  Katoo  (2m  61  rOyri.  good)  CHA¬ 
PS.  ISLAND  ll  2nd  ol  12  to  Sam  Farr  *  htome- 
dtate  ac  Morton  (3m.  good  re  linn  I  on  panubnate 
Stel  May  1994  DONOVANS  REEF  201  3nl  ol  19 
10  County  Tamraen  m  a  restricted  ti  Atomck  (3m. 
good).  REIflLLEfrS  GLORY  Bl  2nd  ol  14  In  Force 
Ertid  in  a  resawed  a)  Souhnfll  (3m.  sod)  SVS 


Deal  Ubu  vail  i 


DELIGHT  Dea  eflort  tea  seam  beat  Rtefcy  Dtoky 
Ooo  61  In  15-runner  makfen  open  ti  Wear*  Fm 
(3m.  good  »  firm).  WR.Y  WfiJ 
in  a  14-nmer  ck*  mamtw 
heavy)  «8h  RYDEHS  WELS  5Bi  60i 
DELIGHT  51  2nd  « 14  to  Pea)ade  n  a  todies'  open 
ai  Wefriertw  J3m,  heavy). 

Sedation:  RtVLLER’S  GLORY 


3.50  COUN  TTNKLEH  HANDICAP  (fiJRDLE  (£2,265: 3m  3f  110yd)  (8  rnnnefs) 

T  74  PASHMS  DULA  58  (C.H  (Mra  J  AstoM)  Mrs  M  Rewtey  9-11-iD —  N  Srddl  85 

2  6P-4110  FARMER'S  CROSS  39  (C.GS)  (Mis  A  Farrell)  P  Beantocrt  11-11-7  Ms  A  Fare!  94 

3  12144F  GUNDALANE  LADY  53  (F.G)  (Ms  M  (Tltofll)  J  J  ONal  6-H-B  R  UcGnth  0  88 

4  232/4UU  URON  V  15  (FJ5)  (B  FateflP  An*te)  Ms  M  tewtey  9-11-1 - P  »wn  - 

5  P4F5P1  MES  CAPULET  15  (B.S.S)  (C  P  Hactop)  7  DanruDy  8-11 D - T  Bey  (3)  gj 

6  5V64P12  DORLIN  CASTLE  15  (SI  (Ms  D  Grripj  L  Longa  7  11-0 - - T  Reed  BB 

7  5-PP662  SHH.T0N  ABBEY  67  (B.CDJ£i)  (J  Wade)  J  Wade  9-1M -  K  Jones  90 

8  2-34564  TRUELY  ROYAL  32  (BAS)  (I  Pearacnl  J  Cfoton  11-10-5 - B  Stony  - 

BOTWG:  11-4  Dorito  Castle.  7-3  Farmer's  Cron.  4-1  ifcs  CspiM  5-1  Gteetdane  tody.  7-1  Sheton  Abbey. 
B-1  Unn  V.  12-1  Darting  Duto.  16-1  Tiutiy  Ftoval 


FORM  FOCUS 


DA5HNG  DULA  2141  6tii  ol  12  m  Memaatte  fn 
handtep  luflte  tm  (2m  5(  tidyd.  Bond  to  roll). 
FARMER'S  CROSS  sonitotsd  double  Deal  Monaru 
1HI  to  1  i-runner  henrpcag  hurdle  al  CaBerick  (3m 
If  1UM,  mB)  penultimate  son.  GLAMJALAffi 
LADY  IIW I  4*  ti  12  to  Maqus  in  a  hand  cap 
hurtle  over  course  and  distance  (good  to  still  on 
peartllmtie  sari.  URON  V  tea  recoa  rite!  about 
441  4th  ol  14  ro  Mrta  to  novice  chase  ti  Carieto 
(3m.  soil)  Bitb  MISS  CAPULET  (4A  norae  ofl) 


DuBad  up  3  DUL  MISS  CAPULET  Deal  DORLIN 
CASTLE  (2D>  better  ofll  31  m  a  9-nmnra  cnK&tnraJ 
ifflSws'  handcap  ludte  ti  Carttoto  [3m  HOjri. 
heavy).  DORLH  CASTLE  teat  Mata  Mrddypen 
141  m  a  23-nma  maiden  hudfe  ti  CaBent*  (3m 

il  110yd.  soft  on  penulttmate  stad. 

SHELTON  ABBEY  2nd  rt  14  to  Very  EvUarrl  In 
a  handrap  ludr  ti  CaBendt  (3m  II  110yd,  good 
u  srtD. 

Selection:  DORLIN  CASTLE 


4.20  BIU.W6HAM  NATIONAL  HUNT  NOVICES  HURDLE 

(£2,408:  2m  II  TIQyd)  (9  runners) 

1  12-3212  LDCHNAGRAM  19  (»^)  (Utiffiody  ti  Hamtion)  Ms  M  Reveley  7-11-7  P  Mven  @ 

2  00-1006  SOLAR  NOVA  33  (COG)  (Mo  C  ParW  I  Part  7-11-2 _  N  Sntih  84 

3  0-051  YOUAIBI  11  (S)  (J  Utison)  L  Lingo  5-11-2 _  T  Reed  83 

4  0  KMGS  MNSTRAL  134  (Ems  ti  tote  R  ton*)  D  ton*  5-11-0  M1  A  Mamets  0  - 

5  5  RYE  CROSS  KG  32  (C  Stevens)  M  H  Easwtry  5-11-0 _  L  Wyer  - 

B  00-  WHA1DBY0USAY  350  IMS  D  Bousfield)  B  BuEieH)  7-110 _ A  Roche  (31  - 

7  DO  MOLLY  MMSTOEL  15  (J  Johnson)  J  Jansen  6-10-9 -  D  Brtyywter  - 

8  800  OWENS  QUEST  22  (Lank*  tong  Cfub)  T  EBinxpon  5-109.  ..  A  Thorton  62 

9  4006  TACTK  15  (D  Teasrtk)  Mgs  M  Wigan  5-109 -  Rkhtid  Guest  - 

BETTING:  6-4  UtiiHQralo.  5-2  YouandL  5-1  Sate  Non.  6-1  Rye  Crosse*.  IM  Tk».  20-1  odea. 


FORM  FOCUS 


LOCHNAGRAH  *1  2nd  al  17  to  Yflfc  Teton  in 
nowce  turtle  ti  Katoo  (2m  21.  goad  to  sttil. 
SOLAR  NOVA  28W  6Dt  Ol  15  to  togletontei  in 
norica  Itadie  ti  Ctiiericfc  (2m  3L  soft)  rttfi  TACTIX 
(2Bi  teita  til)  201SI  8«  and  YOUANDI  <4lb  msa 


rtf)  2EI1iti  YOUMIDI  beti  Craigre  RamtUer  101  n 
12-romer  maiden  hinla  »  Ayr  (2m.  hewy)  RYE 
CROSSING  281  5l)i  ol  17  to  Go-tofama)  in  NH  Sal 
race  ti  HaydtKk  ran.  heavy). 

Selection: 


COURSE  SPECIALISTS 


TRAINERS 

Wire 

Rm 

% 

JOCKEYS 

Wimara 

Hides 

% 

Ms  M  Revetey 

7D 

m 

30.4% 

P  Mven 

56 

193 

290 

1  Part 

5 

17 

29.4% 

L  Wyer 

28 

114 

240 

M  H  Easterly 

24 

in 

24 

F  Letiry 

6 

32 

IBB 

L  Lungo 

8 

:« 

21  1% 

J  Cali  ban 

22 

121 

1BJ 

G  Moore 

30 

152 

197% 

R  Martg  . 

Ms  A  Farrell 

0 

52 

15.4 

F  Cteestnutii 

4 

21 

19.0% 

4 

27 

14.B 

Beith  questions  Tote  post 

THE  Nolan  committee,  which  is  inquiring  into  standards  in 
public  life,  has  been  asked  to  examine  foe  way  the  Home 
Secretary  appoints  the  chairman  of  foe  Tote,  the  position  held 
by  Lord  Wyatt  of  Weeford  (Richard  Evans  writes).  Alan  Beith. 
deputy  leader  of  the  Libera]  Democrats,  has  forwarded  copies 
of  articles  written  by  Lord  Wyatt  in  The  Times  and  the  News  of 
the  World  to  Lord  Nolan  and  in  a  letter  asked:  “Lord  Wyatt  is 
known  for  his  support  of  foe  Government  in  general  and  the 
Home  Secretary  in  particular.  How  are  we  to  know  this  support 
would  not  be  a  factor  in  Lord  Wyatt’s  reappointment, 
particularly  as  there  is  no  open  competition  for  this  important 
and  very  well  paid  post?"  Beifo's  letter  comes  days  before 
Michael  Howard,  the  Home  Secretary,  is  expected  to  reappoint 
Lord  Wyatt,  76,  to  his  £95.000  a  year  post  for  a  further  two 
years. 


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46  SPORT  /  RADIO 


THE 


TIMES  WEDNESDAY  FEBRUARY  22 1995 


Russia  to 
sell  its 
sporting 
secrets  to 
Australia 

RUSSIA,  the  driving  force 
behind  the  former  Soviet 
Union's  domination  of  the 
Olympic  Gaines  alter  the 
Second  World  War,  has 
agreed  to  sell  its  sporting 
secrets  to  Australia  for 
US$1  million  (about 
£634,000). 

Australia,  which  will 
host  the  2000  Games  in 
Sydney,  is  paying  for  Rus¬ 
sian  expertise  in  the  hope 
of  improving  its  standing 
in  the  medals  table. 

“We  are  buying  70  years 
of  success,"  Craig  Mo- 
Latchey.  the  Australian 
Olympic  Committee  sports 
director,  said  yesterday. 
He  said  that  Russia  would 
be  paid  (Hi  an  hourly  basis 
over  the  next  five  years  for 
providing  assistance  in 
boxing,  wresding.  weight- 
lifting,  judo,  athletics  and 
shooting- 

“The  Russians  need  a 
source  of  funding  because 
many  of  their  programmes 
are  short  of  money." 
McLatchey  said.  Austra¬ 
lian  competitors  won  27 
medals  at  the  1992  Olym¬ 
pics  in  Barcelona,  and  the 
country  has  set  a  target  of 
60  medals  —  including  20 
gold  medals  —  as  host 
nation  in  2000. 

Under  the  agreement 
Russia  will  provide  details 
of  its  training,  diet  and 
sports  psychology  pro¬ 
grammes.  bio-mechanical 
research,  planning  proce¬ 
dures  and  monitoring 
methods. 

“Money  alone  cannot 
guarantee  success  in  sport, 
but  without  money  there  is 
only  one  guarantee  —  you 
will  not  achieve  success.” 
McLatchey  said.  “In  these 
particular  sports,  Russia  is 
dearly  the  best  and  this 
agreement  is  aimed  at 
producing  successful 
sports  programmes  across 
the  board  in  Australia  to 
go  beyond  2000.” 

The  deal  was  agreed  two 
weeks  ago  when  Anatoly 
Kolosev,  the  director  of  the 
team  Russia  will  send  to 
ttae  Olympics  in  Atlanta 
next  summer,  visited  Syd¬ 
ney.  Kolosev  was  vice- 
minister  for  sport  in  the 
Soviet  Union.  The  agree¬ 
ment  will  entail  regular 
exchanges  of  coaches, 
competitors  and  sports  sci¬ 
entists.  Discussions  began 
nearly  a  year  ago,  when 
McLatchey  headed  an 
Australian  fact-finding 
mission  to  Moscow. 

“We  were  particularly 
impressed  with  the  way 
the  Russian  sporting  au¬ 
thorities  planned  their  pro¬ 
grammes,”  McLatchey 
said.  “As  an  Olympic  rival, 
we  are  no  threat  to  them 
and  the  Russians  were 
keen  to  form  a  closer 
relationship  with  Austra¬ 
lia  as  the  hosts  of  foe  2000 
Games.” 

Each  of  the  six  sports 
chosen  for  the  agreement 
involves  multiple  events, 
increasing  Australia’s  po¬ 
tential  return  on  Its  invest¬ 
ment  in  terms  of  medals. 
Australia  wall  spend 
A  us$350  million  (about 
£164  million)  on  a  govern¬ 
ment-funded  programme 
aimed  at  securing  more 
medals  in  Atlanta  and 
Sydney. 

This  investment  is  good 
insurance,”  McLatchey 
said.  Australia,  which 
dominated  the  Common¬ 
wealth  Games  in  Victoria. 
British  Columbia,  last 
year,  has  already  seen  the 
benefits  of  employing 
coaches  from  the  former 
Soviet  Union  and  China 
and  would  love  to  chall¬ 
enge  the  leading  sporting 
nations,  such  as  Russia, 
the  United  States  and 
Germany,  in  the  Olym¬ 
pics. 


Liverpool  prepare  Dane  for  Coca-Cola  Cup  semi-final 

Molby  sweeps  into  contention 


By  Peter  Ball 

AFTER  a  three-month  ab¬ 
sence.  Jan  Molby  is  standing 
by  to  make  a  comeback  for 
Liverpool  in  the  dub's  most 
important  match  of  the  season 
so  far,  the  Coca-Cola  Cup 
semi-final  second  leg  with 
Crystal  Palace  tonight  Molby 
was  surprisingly  included  in 
the  squad  dial  travelled  to 
London  yesterday. 

The  Dane  has  not  played  for 
Liverpool  since  the  2-0  defeat 
against  Everton  on  November 
21,  when  he  sustained  a  calf 
injury.  He  has  played  only  two 
reserve  games  since  then,  but, 

with  Ruddock  suspended  fora 

game  which  Liverpool  enter 
with  a  one-goal  lead,  he  could 
be  employed  as  a  sweeper  in 
front  of  or  behind  the  back 
four. 

“I’ve  got  three  or  four  op¬ 
tions."  Roy  Evans,  the  Liver¬ 
pool  manager,  said  yesterday. 
“I’m  possibly  pushing  Jan 
bade  a  little  too  early,  and  I’m 
not  certain  that  we  will  use 
him.  but  we  could.  He  is  in  my 
plans  and  my  thoughts.  I 
would  like  him  to  be  a  bit 
titter,  but  that’s  life,  ft  is  not  a 
perfect  world.” 

Although  Ruddock  is  sus¬ 
pended.  Babb  returns  in  his 
place  after  missing  the  FA  Cup 
tie  with  Wimbledon  on  Sun¬ 
day.  Then,  Liverpool  played 
with  a  back  four,  but  the  need 
to  protea  a  slender  lead  might 
persuade  Evans  that  foe  more 
regular  formation  of  three 
central  defenders  is  prefera¬ 
ble,  opening  the  way  for 
Molby. 

“He  was  outstanding  on  foe 
first  day  of  the  season  at 
Crystal  Palace,”  Evans  said, 
out,  although  that  was  in  his 
more  familiar  role  in  midfield. 
Palace  will  need  no  reminding 
that  Liverpool  won  that  game 
6-1.  MoIby*s  last  appearance 
was  also  foe  last  time  Liver¬ 
pool  have  conceded  two  goals 
in  a  match,  a  measure  of 
Crystal  Palace’s  task. 

“We  must  go  with  confi¬ 
dence  and  play  sensibly,"  Ev¬ 
ans  said.  “We  mustn't  go  there 
believing  we  can  hold  out.  we 
must  go  with  attacking  ideas 
of  our  own.  They  will  have  to 
come  out  and  play  more  and 
that  will  give  us  more  space, 
which  could  suit  us.” 

In  the  other  semi-final  at 
Bolton,  Swindon  Town,  like 
Liverpool  have  a  one-goal 
advantage  to  protect  There, 
the  resemblance  ends.  Bolton 
Wanderers  are  full  of  confi¬ 
dence  and  at  present  top  the 
Endsleigh  Insurance  League, 
while  Swindon’s  injury  prob¬ 
lems  are  getting  worse  rather 
than  better. 

The  loss  of  Shaun  Taylor  in 


Rush,  die  Liverpool  captain,  who  will  lead  his  side  in  defence  of  a  slender  advantage  at  Selhurst  Park  tonight 


a  defence  already  without 
Culverhouse  and  Bodin  is  a 
serious  setback  blow  for  a 
team  likely  to  be  under  pres¬ 
sure  from  foe  start  against  a 
side  that  has  taken  foe  notable 
scalps  of  Liverpool.  Arsenal. 
Everton,  Aston  Villa  and  Nor¬ 
wich  City  in  the  past  three 
seasons. 

Bruce  Rioch.  the  Bolton 
manager,  has  protested  all 
along/ that  promotion  is  the 
priority,  but  with  Wembley 
one  game  away,  his  guard 
dropped  this.  week.  “Battling 
to  Wembley  is  something  that 
would  mean  such  a  great  deal 
to  everybody,  and  wefe  no 


different,"  Rioch  said,  “but  it 
needs  a  team  effort,  just  tike 
die  tme  against  Barnsley. 

“We  know  we  can  play, 
we’ve  the  talent  and  the  capab¬ 
ility  to  play  well."  Nobody  will 
doubt  that,  and  for  half  an 
hour  in  the  first  leg  they 
looked  capable  of  deriding  the 
tie  there  and  then. 

With  Wembley  only  a  game 
away,  the  Coca-Cola  Cup  of¬ 
fers  instant  gratification  or 
despair,  but  in  foe  long  term, 
sane  games  in  the  Premier¬ 
ship  programme  tonight  may 
.  prove  equally  significant,  with 
the  leaders.  Blackburn 
Rovers,  Manchester  United 


and  a  dutch  of  the  clubs 
involved  at  the  wrong  end  of 
foe  table  ail  playing. 

Blackburn  entertain  Wim¬ 
bledon.  whose  recent  form  has 
been  erratic  to  say  the  least, 
with  a  7-1  defeat  at  Villa  park 
followed  by  the  1-1  draw  at 
Anfield,  always  one  of  their 
happy  hunting  grounds,  on 
Sunday.  Wimbledon  have  had 
their  moments,  or  incidents,  at 
Ewood  Park,  too,  but  Kenny 
Dalglish,  the  Blackburn  man¬ 
ager.  was  full  of  praise  for  the 
south  London  team  yesterday. 

“Wimbledon  have  changed 
virtually  their  entire  team 
since  Joe  Kinnear’s  [the  man¬ 


ager]  arrival,"  Dalglish  said. 
“It’s  a  tremendous  achieve¬ 
ment  and  a  reflection  on 
Wimbledon's  ability  and  de¬ 
sire  io  stay  where  they  are.' 

Manchester  United  travel  to 
Norwich,  foe  first,  and  per¬ 
haps  least  forbidding  of  a  run 
of  four  away  games  which  will 
test  their  capacity  to  keep  up 
with  Blackburn.  With  United 
suddenly  running  into  their 
best  form,  Alex  Ferguson  is 
faring  the  manager  s  favourite 
dilemma  —  who  to  leave 
outCole  returns  after  missing 
the  cup-tie  on  Sunday,  bur 
Ferguson  has  still  to  announce 
who  will  make  way  for  him 


Hearts  revelling  in  cup  hullabaloo 


By  Kevin  MoCarra 

FOR  a  football  tournament  of 
such  antiquity,  foe  Scottish 
Cup  has  surprisingly  acquired 
a  youthful  taste  for  nose  and 
mayhem.  Heart  of  Midlothi¬ 
an’s  4-2  defeat  of  Rangers  in 
their  fourth-round  tie  at 
Tynecastle  on  Monday  was  a 
match  of  glorious  hullabaloo. 

Tommy  McLean,  the  man¬ 
ager  of  the  Edinburgh  club, 
shunned  his  office  yesterday, 
preferring  a  trip  to  Bathgate 
for  a  reserve  match.  Perhaps 
he  considered  a  look  at  his 
second  XI  foe  best  sedative 
after  the  excitement  of  foe 
previous  evening. 

Although  Rangers  had  also 
been  beaten  by  Aberdeen  in 
their  previous  match,  defeats 
for  foe  Ibrox  team  are  still 
scarce  enough  to  carry  the  air 
of  an  enigma.  Mark  Hateleys 
absence  from  foe  match  en¬ 
couraged  gossip.  The  explana¬ 
tion,  however,  proved  mun¬ 
dane,  if  still  distressing 
enough  for  his  employers.  The 
centre-  forward  will  see  a 
specialist  tomorrow  and  may 
require  a  groin  operation, 
which  would  bring  a  prema¬ 
ture  end  to  his  season. 

Haieley’S  difficulties  have 
been  glaring  for  a  few  weeks 


and,  despite  being  Rangers 
top  scorer,  his  last  goal  was  on 
Boxing  Day.  “Mark  has  been 
troubled  by  the  injury  since 
early  January,"  Walter  Smith, 
the  Rangers  manager,  said, 
“and  foe  effect  it  was  having 
was  plain  for  everyone  to  see." 

Speculation  that  Hatefey 
might  join  his  first  dub. 
Coventry  City,  as  assistant  to 
Ron  Atkinson,  their  new  man¬ 
ager.  is  ill-founded.  At  33. 
Hateley's  desire  for  further 
action  on  the  field  with  Rang¬ 
ers  is  unabated  and.  if  die 
worst  comes  to  the  worst  he 
will  surely  plan  a  comeback 
for  August  Surgery  might 


Haleley:  to  see  specialist 


also  be  required  by  Andy 
Goram,  foe  Rangers  goalkeep¬ 
er,  whose  damaged  tendon 
has  not  healed. 

After  foe  defeat  at  Tyne¬ 
castle.  though.  Rangers  must 
cope  with  the  wounding  know¬ 
ledge  that  foe  recovery  of  such 
players  is  of  no  immediate 
importance.  Rangers,  with  a 
14-point  lead,  are  almost  be¬ 
yond  reach  in  foe  Scottish 
League  championship  and. 
with  their  removal  from  foe 
Tennents  Scottish  Cup.  face  no 
further  challenges  this  season. 

They  were  certainly  ill- 
equipped  to  deal  with  the 
assault  by  Hearts.  Brian 
Laudnip,  in  a  majestic  first 
season  with  Rangers,  seems  to 
have  encouraged  a  dangerous 
dependence  among  his  team¬ 
mates.  The  Dane  was  limited 
by,  die  effects  of  flu  on  Monday 
and  his  colleagues  proved 
unable  to  compensate.  Rang¬ 
ers.  2-0  behind  at  foe  interval 
rallied  to  level  the  score,  but 
soon  succumbed  once  again. 

Throughout  foe  match,  an 
exhilarating  Hearts  team  was 
capable  of  reducing  the  visi¬ 
tors’  defence  to  confusion.  In 
the  end.  their  bravado  did  not 
fafi  them,  and  they  defeated 
Smith’s  side  for  the  first  time 
since  1991.  “I  had  questioned 


my  players  before  foe  game." 
McLean  said,  “but  they  an¬ 
swered  me  tonight” 

Since  being  appointed  in  foe 
summer.  McLean  has  rejuve¬ 
nated  Hearts,  without  being 
averse  to  employing  some  old 
faces  in  the  process.  Jim  Bett 
formerly  of  Aberdeen,  has 
developed  an  aversion  to  the 
haste  and  disorder  of  Scottish 
football,  but  foe  manager’s 
pleas  have  persuaded  foe  re¬ 
fined  midfield  player.  35,  to 
remain  until  at  least  the  end  of 
the  season. 

There  should  be  curiosity  to 
sustain  Bett  In  the  absence  of 
any  overwhelming  favourites, 
the  identity  of  this  season’s 
Cup-winners  is  becoming  ever 
more  difficult  to  predict 

TENNENTS  SCOTTISH  CUP:  Quarter¬ 
final  dates:  March  10:  Cefcc  v  KUmamock. 
March  11:  Rath  Rovers  v  AWheontans; 
Slertiousemuir  v  Htoemian.  March  12 
Heart  of  hWoOtan  v  Duxtea  United 

□  Ajax,  foe  Holland  champi¬ 
ons,  will  protest  strongly 
against  any  punishment 
handed  out  to  their  players  for 
boycotting  the  national  team. 
Eight  Ajax  players  have  re¬ 
fused  to  play  for  against 
Portugal  in  Eindhoven  to¬ 
night  and  the  Dutch  football 
association  has  said  it  is 
considering  what  action  to 
take. 


Answers  from  page  43 

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compound  of  chiU  a  dull  *  Main  a  boil  or  blister.  “Medical  report  for 
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eight  men  with  chilblains,  and  Major  Dmet  with  kibes.” 

SCUMBLE 


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“Cm  sorry,  be  cannot  come  to  die  'phone:  as  usual.  bet  busy 
scumbling,”  J 

BREASTSUMMER 

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— —  *— *  •***■*  ~r  -i  bnSding,  orcr  its  main  door  or 
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EUTHEN1CS 

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their  surroundings  and  conditions  of  work.  In  COnlnuustiiiction  to 
environmentalism,  which  is  foe  sdeneeof  improving  dwsurnnmrfiiigs 
of  tinmans  by  improving  foe  humans.  One  might  suggest,  in  aO 
innocence,  that  one's  metber-ia&w  onghi  to  be  subjected  to  emhenics. 
On  being  questioned,  one  explains  that  you  bad  in  mind  that  shemight 
mow  into  sheltered  accommodation. _  _ 

_  SOLUTION  TO  WINNING  CHESS  MOVE 
1  Qel*!  Rxe’l  2g3  male. 


I 


FOOTBALL 
Kick-off  7,30  Lrieps  stoted 
*  denotes  at***  motet 

Coca-Cola  Cup 
SemWinate.  Second  leg 

*Bo8on(1)v  Swindon  (2) - 

Crystal  Pataca  (0)  v  Liverpool  (1)  (8.0) 
FA  Cffiting  Premiership 

Aston VBa  v  Leicester  (7.45) . . 

BaddxjmvIWmbledon  (745) . . 

CheJsee  v  Southampton  (7.45) . 

Leeds v Everton (7.45)  . . . . 

Man  City  v  Ipswich  (7.45) . . 

Newcastle  v  Tottenham  (7  45)  . . 

•Norwich  v  Man  Utd  (7.45)  . . 

West  Ham  v  OPR  (7.45) . . — 

Endstaigh  Insurance  League 
Second  cSvbton 

Bristol  Rovers  v  Hid  (JLO) - 

8eTe  Scottish  League 
Second  dhriaon 

Maadcwbank  v  String  . . . . 

UNDER-10  INTERNATIONAL:  Enejsnd  v 
Denmak  (at  WaJsefl  FC,  7.45). 

FA  UMBRO  TROPHY:  Second-round 
replay:  Stevenage  v  Yaotf  (7.46). 
UNBOND  LEAGUE:  President's  Cup: 
Second  fount  Boctoi  v  Hyda  Of* 
Fourth-round  replay;  Aculytai  Stanley  v 
Ben®  Auckland  Rat  dMston  Cup:  irtid 
row*  Afitron  v  Worksop. 

OAOORA  LEAGUE:  Thbd  tfvMOrt:  CoBv 
v  LaeMorc  Hartoiv  v  East  Thtnocx 


BEAZER  HOMES  LEAGUE:  Premier  efi- 
vtatoru  Sotted  v  Haleeowen.  Southern 
dMcter  Farerem  v  WBStorvSuper'Ware: 
Wetedstone  v  Buy  Town. 

KONICA  LEAGUE  OF  WAL£$:  Ton  Pentre 
vMMtegPa*. 

LONDON  SPARTAN:  Senior  CriaBenge 
Cup:  ThW  round:  WStesden  v  Wattam 
Aiitjey. 

MBCRVA  SOUTH  MDLANDS  LEAGUE: 

Planter  dbfafan:  Buckingham  Atfi  v 
Iwgtord 

HE usee  LEAGUE  Premier  dMsfem 
North  Lagh  v  Bantuy,  Shortwood  v 
Affflondstoury. 

FS3BWTON  BREWERY  NORTHERN 
LEAGUE:  nit  tflviston:  NortoaUerton  v 
Pamtee. 

FA!  HARP  LAGER  CUP:  Fhst  round 
Cortt  v  UCD  (2.30);  Monepan  v 
H  (2.30);  Wawfote  v  Gatay. 
SUSSEX  UMJET  REPRESENTATIVE 
MATCH:  Amateur  Footbal  ASance  v 
Sussex. 

SUSSEX  SENIOR  CHALLENGE  CUP: 
Quarter-final  replay;  Brighton  and  Ho*  v 
Vfcrtwg. 

NORTHERN  counties  east  league 

Premier  dMann:  Shei&dd  v  Hueknal. 
President's  Cup:  Ttod  romd:  HaSsm  v 
North  Forty. 

CARLING  NORTH  WEST  COUNTIES 
LEAGUE:  Rret  dhtoorc  Hate  OW  Bays  v 
Si  Halans:  Ftosaendata  v  Maine  Road. 
JEWSON  LEAGUE:  Premier  cSvisorc 
Chatteris  v  Hetetasd;  Siowmtot  v 
Wisbech. 

JEWSON  WESSEX  LEAGUE:  Cup:  Qute- 
ter-finai.  Second  tag:  Gosport  v 
Bractertiursi. 


AVON  NSURANCE  COMBINATION:  First 
dMalorc  Whrtfedon  v  Swnton  (at  Plough 
Lane,  Wimbtedoa  2JX.  Postponed  Brigh¬ 
ton  v  Oxford  United  Second  eftteton: 
Birred  nham  v  Starnes  (St  Suiton  C<*J- 
fittd,  7.0);  Cheltenham  v  YBOvti;  Hereford  v 
Bath  (7.45):  Torcuay  v  Cartel  Postponed 
Boummoub  v  PJymaih. 

PONTOS  LEAGUE  Rret  dMsion:  Nans 
Canty  v  waverhsitton  (7D):  Rothertwm 
v  Dertw  (7  0):  Butferand  v  Tranmere  (7.0); 
West  Bromwich  AJbtan  v  Sheffield  United 
(70}.  Second  dnfeton:  Bradford  v  Sheffield 
Wednesday  (7-0) :  Gmsby  v  ftjrt  Vale  pjj)\ 
Preston  v  Blackpool  (7D). 

FA  YOUTH  CUP:  Fourth  round  replay: 
Sotthend  v  ToBenhan  Hotsptr 

RUGBY  UNION 
ClrA  matches 

Cambridge  UnN  v  Army  £3.0). — . 

OriadljrfrvPer»urtt(7JQ . - . 

Nottingham  v  RAF  (7.1 5) . _.C 

OTHER  SPORT 

BASKETBALL'  Budmfcsr  League  Man¬ 
chester  v  Chester  (8.0),  Laopards  v 
Worthing  (HR. 

BILLIARDS:  Srachan  UK  Chemptarahto 
(“Bari)- 

BOHNGt  European  mwswatatt  rfram- 
ptorertp  {vacant]:  RteWe  Woocra  (GB)  v 
SMo  Bran»  P)  (Tetord  ice  rink). 

BOWLS:  Church#  tnaxsnce  world  indoor 
(Jiamptonahips  (Preston). 

TOMS;  LTA  men's  MteHa  uumemert 
(Eaaboune).  LTA  women's  chalenger 
teURBTHt*  (Newcastle). 


FA  switches 
cup-tie 
after  fans 
protest 

By  Our  Sports  Staff 

PROTESTS  by  supporters  of 
the  two  foot  trail  dubs  have 
persuaded  the  Football  Associ¬ 
ation  to  bring  forward  foe  FA 
Cup  sixth-round  tie  between 
Manchester  United  and 
Queens  Park  Rangers  by  a 
day. 

The  game,  originally  sched¬ 
uled  for  Saturday,  March  11. 
was  to  have  beat  played  at 
Old  Trafford  foe  following 
Monday  to  meet  foe  demands 
of  Sky  Television’s  live 
coverage. 

But  yesterday  foe  FA 
switched  the  match  again,  to 
l  pm  on  the  Sunday,  after  it 
was  inundated  with  telephone 
calls  from  people  who  would 
have  been  unable  to  attend  to 
on  a  weekday  evening. 

An  FA  orntial  said:  “We 
received  a  lot  of  complaints 
from  people  who  planned  to 
travel  to  foe  game  and  the 
dubs  and  Sky  were  happy  to 
reschedule  to  the  Sunday.” 
The  decision  will  provide  a 
television  double  bill,  with 
Everton  v  Newcastle  United 
being  shown  live  on  BBC  at 
3pm  on  the  same  day. 

John  Keeley.  33.  tire  Peter¬ 
borough  United  goalkeeper, 
has  left  foe  Endsleigh  Insur¬ 
ance  League  second  division 
dub  by  mutual  consent  Kee¬ 
ley  was  involved  in  exchanges 
with  the  clubs  supporters 
after  being  bedded  and  pelted 
during  foe  4-2  defeat  at 
Bradford  City  on  Saturday.  It 
was  Keefey’s  third  game  for 
Peterborough  since  being 
signed  from  Stockport  County 
earlier  this  month. 

John  Still,  the  Peterborough 
manager,  has  signed  the 
American  goalkeeper,  ian 
Feuer.  on  loan  from  West 
Ham  United  and  he  was  due 
to  make  his  debut  at  home  to 
Brighton  last  night 
Still  said:  “What  some  of  our 
so-called  supporters  did  was 
definitely  out  of  order  but  as  a 
dub.  we  also  feel  thaTJohh " 
should  have  been  able  to 
handle  foe  situation  wifimuT 
reacting  as  he  dkL" 


Doyle  with  a 
touch  of  Lear , 

The  Casebook  of  Sherlock  Holmes.  Radio  4.  m 

"  18  gK)Ur^.tiaf.^0tmeS  iH  SffiffihMml  briefly  at  tie  saitot 

Michael  Williams  have  now  wriggled  snuggiy  into  tbe  skms  of 
Holmes  and  Watson. 

Opexa  House.  Radio  4, 8.45pm. 

As  wchesoalcoisluaor.  Jane  Glover bp  son 

rfiSSSSbtSSg 

finds  her  to  the  Staatsoper  m  vfoar  to  IteE^Berua  Rdmnmg 

to  something  like  its  fanner  gfoiy,  foe  Staatsoper  r 
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(Concerto  for  Orchestra) 

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and  Qyn  Maxwell  go  frshng 
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Slices  of  raw  life  in  the  Yardie 


* 


The  scene  has  a  familiar  ring 
but  is  subtly  new.  “This  is 
the  house  my  father  built," 
says  a  Jamaican  youth  called 
Peter,  surveying  an  unroofed 
□welling  with  pride.  You  expect 
him  to  expand  on  what  a  good 
man  his  father  was  —  and  that's 
exactly  what  he  does.  “He  used  to 
hide  his  drugs  just  here."  he  says. 
“1  remember  when  I  was  small  1 
hid  down  there,  too."  Ah,  the 
innocence  of  childhood  memories. 
Peter  lifts  a  sheet  of  corrugated 
iron  to  reveal  a’ hole  in  the  floor. 
His  father  was  very  smart  as  a 
drugs  dealer,  apparently,  but  not 
so  smart  about  women.  One  of  his 
girlfriends  set  him  up  to  be  killed. 
(Bang  went  Peter’s  inheritance.) 

Peter’s  patois  was  so  dense  it  had 
to  be  translated  into  sub-titles,  but 
everything  else  in  last  night’s 
fascinating  Network  First: 
Yardies  (ITV)  was  perfectly  dear. 
After  a  few  opening  shots  of 
“Yardie"  killings  in  Britain,  the 


rest  of  the  film  was  a  privileged 
close-up  of  the  rawest  ghetto  life  of 
Kingston  —  and  if  Clive  James 
never  sends  a  postcard  from  here, 
you  can’t  blame  him.  Peter  was  a 
useful  chap  to  know,  because  he 
had  access  to  funerals  (he  makes 
videos  of  the  flowery  services,  die 
wailing  of  teenage  molls,  the 
shovelling  of  the  bright  red  earth). 
But  Peter  had  direct  experience  of 
the  violence,  too:  having  recently 
thrown  add  at  an  axeman,  his  left 
afTn  was  a  tracery  of  pink  flesh. 
His  pretty  sister  Rosie  meanwhile— 
mentioned  the  everyday  risk  of 
being  “raped  and  dumped"  in  the 
same  way  we  might  talk  about  all 
the  buses  coming  along  at  once. 

The  director.  Kimi  Zabihyan. 
had  done  a  remarkable  job.  gam¬ 
ing  access  to  the  police  round-up 
squad  as  well  as  the  ghetto. 
Raiding  a  dance  hall  the  police 
arrested  several  boys  who  claimed 
they'd  been  present  for  a  talent 
contest.  This  was  an  easy  story  to 


check:  the  chief  ordered  them  to 
perform  their  rap  acts  here  and 
now  (pleasant  to  see  medieval 
justice  still  flourishing},  and  the 
good  ones  were  released.  But  the 
dangers  were  never  far  away: 
Peter’s  friend  Lloyd  was  first 
discovered  on  a  building  site, 
wearing  a  hard  hat  with  an 
improvised  veil  obscuring  his  face. 
There  had  been  a  mix-up:  a 
woman  had  dumped  a  bucket  of 
arid  over  Lloyd,  in  a  case  of 
"mistaken  identity".  It  was  certain¬ 
ly  a  case  of  mistaken-identity  now. 
When  Lloyd  took  off  the  hat  to  be 
interviewed,  his  face  was  a  howl¬ 
ing  blur  fay  Francis  Bacon  in  pink 
and  brown. 

It  is  quite  rare  to  see  presenters 
sweating  through  their  shirts. 
A  wardrobe  mistress  usually 
waits  near  by,  surely,  with  a  rail  of 
fresh  laundry  and  an  industrial 
hairdryer.  But  Clive  James,  in  last 
night's  Postcard  from  Bombay 


REVIEW 


Lynne 

Truss 


(BBC!)  heartily  eschewed  such 
namby-pamby  treatment,  and  the 
patterns  of  damp  on  his  torso 
became  so  watchable  that  they 
formed  a  parallel  narrative  of  their 
own.  Is  it  hot  in  Bombay,  then?  Is  it 
humid?  Watching  Clive  James 
suffer  so  badly  was  not  pleasant  (at 
one  point  his  face  appeared  to  be 
shrinking  as  it  dripped).  Feeling 
helpless  to  do  anything  else,  1 
gamely  turned  up  the  thermostat. 


The  “postcard"  format  is  pretty 
superficial,  as  the  name  suggests. 
Clive  Anderson’s  new  strand  on 
Fridays  (Our  Man  in  .  . BBC2) 
has  an  investigative  angle,  with 
Anderson  interviewing  officials 
and  hoteliers,  exposing  them  as 
liars.  James  interviews  glamorous, 
rich  women,  with  whom  he  flirts, 
and  his  best  moments  are  out  on 
the  street,  sweating,  hailing  bro¬ 
ken-down  taxis  ("An  oven  would 
have  been  cooler.  An  oven  would 
have  been  faster ").  and  having  his 
■watch-  stolen  by  a  jostling  gang  of 
children. 

There  was  nothing  he  said  about 
Bombay  poverty  that  has  not  been 
said  before.  But  you  watch  Clive 
James  for  the  one-liners,  not  the 
fiscal  analysis.  “The  groom  arri¬ 
ved  looking  stunned.  Many  Indian 
marriages  are  arranged.  He 
looked  as  if  his  had  been  arranged 
under  anaesthetic."  A  new  comic 
departure  last  night  was  a  slap¬ 
stick  episode  at  a  Bollywood 


homeland 


studio,  where  James  volunteered 
as  a  sword-fighting  extra,  dressed 
as  a  chocolate  soldier  with  mous¬ 
tache.  cossack  boots  and  a  pointy 
hat.  After  a  few  brief,  hilarious 
rehearsals  of  cut  and  thrust,  he 
was  filmed  receiving  a  fatal  stab 
under  his  armpit,  assuming  an 
expression  of  extreme  comic  bewil¬ 
derment.  and  then  falling  on  his 
back  in  the  dust  It  was  possibly 
the  funniest  thing  he  has  ever  done 
on  television. 

Clashing  with  Clive  James  on 
BBC2  (how  they  must  have 
cheered  when  they  got  that 
slot)  was  a  new  series.  The 
Labours  of  Eve.  Oh  no,  I  thought 
Not  another  programme  about 
women  going  to  any  lengths  to 
acquire  a  baby?  Last  night’s  first 
film  concerned  a  woman  called 
Joan  whose  two  sons  had  been 
killed  in  a  hit-and-run  at  the  ages 
of  nine  and  four.  Within  three 
months  of  this  devastating  event. 


in  which  she  was  injured  badly 
herself,  she  derided  to  stair 
another  family,  despite  rather 
serious  obstacles  —  her  husband's 
vasectomy,  her  broken  pelvis,  and 
her  inability  at  the  age  of  43  to 
produce  viable  eggs. 

Would  she  be  dissuaded?  No  she 
wouldn’t.  And  by  the  end  of  the 
programme  at  leasr  you  under¬ 
stood  why  the  only  purpose  of  her 
life  was  to  make  new  babies.  The 
presenter.  Nicky  Singer,  asked 
whether  she  had  considered  adop¬ 
tion.  “Oh  yes."  said  Joan,  “but  1 
was  too  old."  So  she  had  a  donor 
egg  (twice),  an  implantation 
(twice),  and  finally  a  Caesarean 
section.  All  this  endurance  cost  her 

£8.000  and  the  result  was  twins. 
Joan  and  her  husband  were  happy 
again  ai  last  Four  spare  embryos 
are  stored  in  a  frozen  chum,  in 
case  she  ever  needs  them.  She  said 
she  would  do  it  all  again,  if  she  had 
to.  Other  people's  lives,  eh?  Other 
people's  lives. 


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10.20  Sportsnlght  Desmond  Lynam  introduces 
highlights  of  the  match  between  Norwich  and 
Manchester  United  at  Carrow  Road;  plus  a  report  on 
British  middleweight  Riche  Woodhall's  fight  against 
Italian  Silvio  Branco  and  Bill  Hardy's  defence  of  his 
featherweight  title  against  Ghana’s  Percy  Commey 
(S)  (1229822) 

11 -45  BRM  The  Stand  Up  Show.  Barry  Cryer 
Introduces  stand  up  comics  (s)  (366261 ) 
12.15am  FILM:  Crossing  the  Mob  (1988)  starring  Jason 
Bateman  and  Frank  Staltone.  A  drama  about  a 
young  man  who  accepts  a  job  from  a  Mafia  boss 
but  then  tries  to  go  straight  when  he  unexpectedly 
becomes  a  father.  Directed  by  Steven  Hilliard  Stem. 
(386897)  1.50  Weather  (5659781) 


BBC2 


620  Open  University:  Women  Artists  —  Feminist 
Strategies  (7432754)  6.45  History:  Witting  and 
Unwitting  Testimony  (8738700)  7.10  The  York 
Mystery  Plays  (3251396)  725  Frederick  the  Great 
and  Sans  Souci  (2548984) 

8.00  Breakfast  News.  (Ceefax  and  signing)  (7376648) 

8.15  Westminster  On-line  wtth  Trevor  PhUHps  (s) 
(4969648) 

9.00  Daytime  on  Two.  Educational  programmes.  Pius, 
for  children,  10.00-1025  PlaydayS  (2916193)  220 
The  Greedysaurus  Gang  (41431648)  2.05  Spider 
(41430919) 

2.10  Songs  of  Praise  (r)  (Ceefax)  (s)  (6011613) 

2.45  World  Bowls.  The  first  two  singles  quarter-finals  of 
the  Churchill  Insurance  Work!  Indoor 
championships,  (s).  fnefudes  news  and  weather  a! 
3.00  (S).  Continues  at  4.30  (7087377)  3-50  News 
(Ceefax).  regional  news  and  weather  (3642990) 

4.00  Today’s  the  Day  Recent  history  quiz  (s)  (754) 

420  World  Bowls.  Further  coverage  (s)  (58445) 

6.00  Star  Trek:  The  Next  Generation.  Soence-ficUon 
adventures.  (Ceefax)  (s)  (753700) 

6.45  Natural  Bom  Footballers.  Profiles  of  the  German 
stars  Gerd  Muller  and  Jurgen  Klinsmann.  (Ceefax) 
(s)  (749803) 

7.00  The  World  at  War  (r).  (Ceefax)  (5939) 


Miranda  Richardson  goes  wild  (8.00pm) 


8.00  Magic  Animals:  The  Wolf.  (Ceefax)  (s) 

8.30  University  Challenge.  New  College.  Oxford,  meet 
the  University  of  Birmingham  for  a  place  in  the  senu- 
finals.  (Ceefax)  (s)  (6919) 

920  EpaMftjgji  Modem  Times:  Mad  About  the  Boy. 
KagSEI  (Ceefax)  (s)  (234209) 

9.50  Ttavei  Show  Short  Cut  (s)  (862209) 

10.00  Room  101 .  Peter  Cook  talks  to  Nick  Hancock  about 
the  people,  places  and  programmes  he  dislikes  the 
most  (r)  (Ceefax)  (s)  (53087) 

10.30  Newsnfght.  (Ceefax)  (328648) 

11.15  The  Late  Show.  Rory  Bremner  on  his  love  for  the 
sculptures  of  Ronald  Rae  (s)  (100984) 

11.55  Weather  (819938) 

1220  Shakespeare’s  Henry  IV  —  A  Workshop 
(1590168) 

1225am  No  Lay-Bys  at  35,000  Feet  Three  vital  parts  of 
an  aeroplane  (r)  (7378217) 

12.50  The  Record  The  day  in  Parliament  (sj  (1598878). 
Ends  at  120 

2.00  Night  School:  Special  Needs  —  Access  to 
Learning  (35588)  420-4.15  BBC  Select:  Benefits 
Agency  Today  (35652472) 


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Carol  Spencer  and  Lamln  Marong  (BBC2, 920pm) 


Modern  Times:  Mad  About  the  Boy 

BBC2. 9.00pm 

When  Carol  Spencer,  52,  derided  to  marry  Lamin 
Marong  from  the  Gambia  the  tongues  began  to  wag. 
Not  only  was  he  black  and  she  white  but  he  was  25 
years  her  junior.  Even  her  closest  friends  were 
surprised.  It  could  not  possibly  work,  could  it?  Helena 
Appro's  film  provides  the  answer  as  it  follows  die 
couple  to  their  wedding  day  and  through  the  difficult 
times  which  followed.  Carol,  who  had  been  twice 
married  before,  reckoned  she  was  a  good  judge  of 
people  and  was  convinced  it  would  be  third  time  lucky. 
Besides,  h  worked  for  Deirdre  in  Coronation  Street  so 
why  not  for  her?  The  merit  of  Ajjpio’S  documentary, 
the  first  in  a  series  on  "how  we  live  now",  is  that  it  is 
frank  and  intimate  without  being  prurient 

Magic  Animals 

BBC2,  S.COpm 

A  wildlife  series  with  a  difference  profiles  four  animals 
and  shows  how  the  reality  has  beat  obscured  by  the 
myths  of  human  imagination.  Future  programmes 
deal  with  the  bear,  the  dolphin  and  snake.  Tonight's 
film,  stylishly  directed  by  Mark  Harrison,  deals  with 
the  wolf.  The  actress  Miranda  Richardson,  colourfully 
costumed  and  with  hair  dyed  black,  is  the  storyteller. 
The  material  is  drawn  from  Z000  years  of  history  and 
recalls  that  the  wolf  has  not  only  been  hunted  to 
extinction  but  has  been  widely  regarded  as  an 
incarnation  of  the  Devil.  From  Little  Red  Riding  Hood 
to  lycanthropy  and  the  legend  of  the  werewolf,  the 
myth  has  bitten  deep  into  popular  culture.  Only  the 
native  Americans  saw  the  wolf  as  a  friend. 

Harry 

BBCJ.  930pm 

Returning  for  a  second  series.  Michael  Elphick's 
freelance  journalist  immediately  has  his  nose  smashed 
by  a  Fleet  Street  editor  furious  at  holding  the  front 
page  for  a  story  which  failed  to  arrive.  The  ratings  may 
have  been  disappointing  first  time  round,  but  this  still 
seems  a  cynical  way  to  grab  viewers.  Not  surprisingly 
Elphick's  battered  Harry  retreats  to  the  North  East 
ana  tries  to  make  it  up  with  his  wife-  Unfortunately  for 
the  show,  smoe  Rita  (superbly  played  by  Barbara 
Marten)  has  been  the  one  character  of  any  depth,  she 
tells  him  to  push  off.  This  leaves  Harry  to  direct  his 
rough  charm  elsewhere,  while  getting  enmeshed  in  an 
unsavoury  tale  about  a  bunch  of  hooded  vigilantes 
who  delight  in  stringing  people  up  to  lampposts. 

The  Real  Holiday  Show 
Channel  4,  SJOpm 

Gaby  Roslin  presents  an  antidote  to  holiday 
programmes  which  pretend  that  everything  is  what 
the  brochure  promises.  This  series  features  video 
records  of  actual  holidays.  Wanda  and  Richard 
Hurley  from  Swindon  decided  to  take  advantage  of  a 
cut-price  air  ticket  and  go  to  the  Caribbean.  The  flights 
were  delayed,  the  apartment  was  not  ready,  it  ramed 
buckets  and  their  hire  car  was  stolen.  On  top  of  all  this 
their  holiday  films  were  ruined.  It  never  happened  to 
Judith  Chalmers.  But  not  all  is  misery.  Teenager 
Mandv  from  Dagenham  enjoys  a  holiday  camp  at 
Great 'Yarmouth  and  four  likely  lads  from  Dorset  set 
out  for  the  sun,  sea.  sand  and  you-know-what  of  an  18- 
to-30  break  on  Ibiza.  Peter  Waymark 


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925  Chain  Letters  (s)  (4761358)  9-55  London  Today 
(Teletext)  and  weather  (2820342) 

10-00 The  Time. .  .the  Place  Topical  discussion  with 
John  Stapleton  (s)  (4027209) 

1025  This  Morning  Weekday  (amity  magazine 
presented  by  Stephen  Rhodes  and  Alison  Keenan 
(90161919)  1220pm  London  Today  11858006} 
1220  News  (Teletext)  and  weather  (4604613) 

12.55  Coronation  Street  (r).  (Teletext)  (4785532)  125 
Home  and  Away  (Teletext)  (61341358) 

1.55  Capita)  Woman.  Includes  a  report  on 
dancophobia.  a  tear  of  dancing,  and  a  look  at 
former  addict  Phil  Cooper,  who  tours  London's 
schools  warning  of  the  dangers  of  drugs  (s) 
(67277247)  225  A  Country  Practice  (s) 
(61752377) 

220  Blue  Heelers  (9579938)  320 1TN  News  headlines 
(Teletext)  (7221822)  325  London  Today  (Teletext) 
and  weather  (7220193) 

320  Alphabet  Castle  (r)  (s)  (9326006)  3-40  Wkadora 
(r)  (s)  (3640532)  320  A  Pup  Named  Scooby  Doo 
(r)  (7200700)  4.15  Reboot  (s)  (6135272)  4.40  The 
Tomorrow  People  (Teletext)  (2681 862) 

5.10  After  5  (Teletext)  (5264764) 

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525  Your  Shout  Members  of  the  public  air  their  views 
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620  London  Tonight  presented  by  Alastair  Stewart  and 
Fiona  Foster.  (Teletext)  (209) 

7.00  Wish  You  Were  Here. . .  ?  Includes  reports  on  a 
new  resort  in  Egypt;  holidays  suitable  for  die 
disabled;  Ironbridge  m  Shropshire;  and  an 
American  fly-drive  trip.  (Teletext)  (s)  (6990) 


Bill  Tenney  and  Elizabeth  Dawn  (720pm) 


720  Coronation  Street.  Vera  (Elizabeth  Dawn)  accuses 
Jack  (Bill  Tarroey)  of  caring  more  lor  a  sick  pigeon 
than  for  her.  (Teletext)  (193) 

8.00  The  Match  —  Live.  Bob  Wilson  introduces  action 
from  the  second  leg  of  the  Coca-Cola  Cup  semi¬ 
final  match  between  Crystal  Palace  and  Liverpool 
from  SeSiurst  Park.  Plus  highlights  of  the  other  semi¬ 
final  between  Bolton  and  Swindon  (4071) 

10.00  News  at  Ten  (Teletext)  and  weather  (77613) 

1020 London  Tonight  (Teletext)  and  weather  (423735) 
10.40  HUM:  Prince  of  Darkness  (1987)  starring  Donald 
Pleasence.  A  priest  unwittingly  unleashes  a  torrent 
of  violence  when  he  discovers  a  canister  containing 
the  spirit  ot  the  Devil.  Directed  by  John  Carpenter 
(65608377) 

12.40am  Allen  Nation  (s)  (2876043) 

125  Hollywood  Report  (s)  (8478781) 

2.05  The  Beat  (s)  (6437410) 

3.00  The  Album  Show  featuring  U2  (s)  (8997033) 

4.05  Shift.  Young  producers  and  directors  bring  music, 
arts  and  comedy  to  the  small  secreen  (7981859) 
425  The  Time. . .  the  Place  (r)  (s)  (6632762) 

520  TTN  Homing  News  (39507).  Ends  at  620 


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6.35  Sandokan  (r)  (8812716) 
7.00  The  Big  Breakfast  (18803) 
9.00  Wish  Kid  (rj  (50990) 


920  Schools'  Living  and  Growing  (9809700)  9.46  Talk 
Write  and  Read  (9995551)  10.02  Stage  Two 
Science  (6778551)  10.16  Mind  Your  Own  business 
(6764358)  10.40  Living  with  Technology  (1569700) 
10.55  Film  and  Video  Showcase  (6147716)11.05 
Encyclopaedia  Galacuca  (9367261)  11.15  The 
Music  Show  (2755006)  1120  Rat-a-Tat-Tal 
(3947984)  11.45  First  Edition  (3048667) 

12.00  House  To  House.  Political  magazine  (70754) 
1220  Sesame  Street.  Pre-school  learning  entertainment. 
The  guest  is  Lorame  Newman  (30377)  120  Take  5 
leaJunng  Mister  Men.  Tates  Rom  the  Fhverbank, 
Natalie,  Ivor  the  Engkie  and  Joggy  Bear  (86803) 
2.00  The  Flying  Fabian.  Cartoon  (59469532) 


2.15  FILM:  A  Connecticut  Yankee  in  King  Arthur's 
Court  (1989)  starring  Kesha  Knight  Pulliam.  A 
made-for-relevrsion  version  of  Mark  Twain's  tafe  of  a 
girl  who  is  knocked  out  and  wakes  up  in  Camel  ot 
Directed  by  Mel  Damsfv.  (Teletext)  (287006) 

4.00  Journeyman.  Clive  Gunnell  leaves  Saftsbury  Plain 
for  Old  Sarum  (s)  (8 22) 

420  Countdown.  (Teletext)  (s)  (826) 


520  Ricki  Lake.  The  guests  are  divorced  couples  who 
are  fixing  each  other  up  with  new  partners.  (Teletext 
(s)  (7537822)  520  Rhyme  and  Reason  (438025) 


6.001 


RBBAO  American  Girt.  American  sit-com 
starring  Margaret  Cho.  (Teletext)  (241) 
620  Boy  Meets  World.  (Teletext)  (551) 


7.00  Channel  4  News  (Teletext)  and  weather  (360396) 
720  The  Slot.  Viewers'  video  soapbox  (328754) 

8.00  Brookside.  The  hate  campaign  against  the 
Jordaches  intensifies.  (Teletext)  (s)  (5280) 


Gaby  Roslin  packs  her  bags  (820pm) 


820 


The  Real  Holiday  Show  (Teletext) 
(1087) 


920  Dispatches.  An  investigation  mto  fats  that  many 
scientists  believe  can  kill  but  the  food  industry 
keeps  quiet  about.  (Teletext)  (580090) 


9.45  Out  Of  Order  The  Sun  Is  the  Voice  Of  the 
Nation.  Stuck  m  the  lift  this  week  are  Christopher 
Hitchens,  cultural  critic  of  Vanity  Fair,  and 
Christopher  Roycroft  Davis,  assistant  editor  of  The 
Sun.  (Teletext)  (s)  (782984) 


10.00  ER:  Hit  and  Run.  American  hospital  drama  senes. 
(Teletext)  (4648) 

11.00  The  Best  Of  the  Tube.  Wtth  Paul  Young.  Culture 
Club.  INXS,  the  Pretenders.  Spitting  Image  and 
French  and  Saunders  (289445) 

1125  Moviewatch  (r)  (s)  (843735) 

1225am  LA  Law.  Courtroom  drama  series  (7538507) 


1.00  Rocky  World.  The  life  and  work  of  music  producer 
Daniel  Lanois  (r)  (s)  (1998762) 

2.05  FILM:  Sanders  of  the  River  (1935.  b/w)  slamng 
Leslie  Banks  and  Paul  Robeson.  Drama  about  a 
British  commissioner  in  Central  Africa  who  puts 
down  an  uprising  with  the  help  of  a  loyal  chieftain. 
Directed  by  Zottan  Korda  (455168).  Ends  at  3.40 


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WINNING  RETURN14 
AT  WARWICK 


WEDNESDAY  FEBRUARY  22  1995 


Manager  dismissed  in  wake  of  Premier  League  inquiry  into  transfer  irregularities 

Arsenal  may  count 

against 
promotion 


ultimate  price 

By  Rob  Hughes,  football  correspondent 


GEORGE  GRAHAM,  who 
brought  to  Arsenal  football 
club  more  silverware  than  any 
manager  since  Herbert  Chap¬ 
man  in  the  I930Si  was 
dismissed  in  ignominy  yester¬ 
day;  a  man  who  survived  his 
pragmatic,  winner-takes:aJi 
ethic  until,  it  is  allied,  he  took 
a  little  too- much.  Besides,  his 
team  had  actually,  started 
losing. 

When  the  announcement 
came  from  Highbury's  marble 
halls  ar.l.lOpm  yesterday,  it 
may  have  been  mere  coinci¬ 
dence  that  the  heavens  over 
North  London  opened.  A  111- 
word  statement  said  that  Gra¬ 
ham's  contract  had  been 
terminated  after  84  successful 
years  after  “the  FA  Premier 
League  inquiry  into  alleged 
irregularities  concerning  cer¬ 
tain  transfers  ...  the  board 
concluded  lhai  Mr  Graham 
did  not  act  in  the  best  interests 
of  the  club". 

There  was.  at  once,  another 
storm  brewing.  It  reached 
many  parts  of  the  country, 
many  dubs  where  there  are 
managers  who,  according  to 
rumour  and  rancour,  have 
been  just  as  injudicious  as 
Graham  in  accepting  monies 
in  connection  with  the  trans¬ 
fer  of  footballers  from  one  dub 
to  another. 

There  was  also  some  poppy¬ 
cock  spouted.  Arsenal,  it  was 
said,  had  dismissed  Graham 
because  the  club  upholds  stan¬ 
dards  that  others  only  aspire 
to.  What  nonsense.  This  affair 
had  not  simply  arisen  in 
newspapers-  shortly  before 
Christmas,  but  had  been  ex¬ 
posed  in  .a  book,  The  Men 
Behind  Brondby,  by  Henrik 
Madsen,  in  November  1993. 
Subsequently.  Graham  is  al¬ 
leged  to  have  paid  back  the 
£285,000  “unsolicited  gift"  he 
received  from  the  Norwegian 
agent.  Rune  Hauge;  at  the 
time  of  the  transfer  to  Arsenal 
from  Brondby  of  John  Jensen. 
Peter  Hill-Wood,  the  Old 


Etonian  chairman  at  High¬ 
bury.  reiterated  yesterdaythat 
his  "dub  had  met  Rick  Parry, 
the  chief  executive  of  the 
Premier  League,  last  Friday, 
and  had  reached  the  unani- 
'  mous  decision  to  terminate 
Graham's  contract  The  term i- 
natipn.  it.  is  said,  comes  with 
no  compensation  for  the  un¬ 
served  portion  of  his  deal, 
which  had  more  than  two 
years  to  run  at  some  £250,000 
.  per  year. 

Hill-Wood  admined  that  the 
timing  of  the  dismissal  was 
“inconvenient".  He  said: 


Graham  calls 
for  inquiry 

George  Graham'  said  last 
night  he  .would  "vigorously 
contest"  his  dismissal  by 
Arsenal,  in  a  statement  is¬ 
sued  through  his  solicitors, 
he  accused  the  dub  of  mak¬ 
ing  a  "kangaroo  court  judg¬ 
ment”,  dismissed  the 
allegations  of  transfer  irreg¬ 
ularities  as  "nonsense"  arid 
called  "for  a  full  and  open 
inquiry  by  the  Football  Asso¬ 
ciation"  "My  record  of  loyal¬ 
ty  and  service  demanded 
better  treatment,"  he  added. 


"There  is  no  convenient  time 
to  lose  a  manager  who's  been 
so  successful."  Successful 
indeed.  Though  many  people 
.  have  shuddered  at  the  manner 
in  which  Graham’S,  teams 
“closed  down"  the  opposition, 
though  the  trophies  were 
ground  out  of  toil  and  labour, 
they  came  at  a  prodigious  rate: 
‘two  league  championships, 
three  other  domestic  trophies 
and  the  Cup  Winners’  Cup. 
which  Arsenal  seek  to  defend 
against  the  French  team. 
Auxerre.  next  month. 

There  are  so  marry  memo¬ 
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circle  at  Airfield,  embracing 
his  son  and  his  daughter, 
while  his  team  cavorted  in 
front  of  the  Kop.  having  won 
the  championship  in  the  hard¬ 
est  way  imaginable,  by  beat¬ 
ing  Liverpool  2-0  in  their  own 
ritadeL 

And  then,  less  than  a  year 
ago,  there  was  Graham  at 
Stansted  airport  at  3am.  Hie 
Arsenal  team  had  landed, 
bringing  home  the  Cup  Win¬ 
ners*  Cup.  There  were  bleary 
eyes,  rambling  voices,  and 
there  was  Graham  —  pristine, 
hugging  the  trophy  and  the 
limelight  "Winning  the  Cup 
Winners'  Cup.  against  teams 
that  were  much  better  in 
technical  quality,  is  outstand¬ 
ing."  he  said.  "Ask  yourself 
why." 

The  reason  shone  like  the 
trophy;  it  was  the  tactical  nous 
of  the  man  who  had  risen  from 
poverty,  from  being  the  youn¬ 
gest  of  six  in  a  Scottish 
upbringing  made  so  hard  by 
the  death  of  his  father  when 
Graham  was  barely  three 
years  old. 

As  a  footballer,  the  “Stroll¬ 
er”,  he  had  graced  the  midfield 
of  the  otherwise  equally  prag¬ 
matic  Arsenal  double  team  of 
1970-71.  He  admitted,  many 
years  and  many  successes 
later,  that  Graham  the  player 
would  not  have  got  into  Gra¬ 
ham  the  manager’s  team.  But 
he  could  baffle  himself  with 
arrogance,  with  his  fixed 
smile  in  adversity.  One  mo¬ 
ment  that  clings  to  the  image 
of  this  Scot  was  Graham 
claiming  he  hacl  not  read  the 
critidsm,  but  that  what  was 
written  was  wrong. 

So.  pragmatic,  utterly  com¬ 
bative,  suave  .at  tiie  surface 
. . .  what  could  have  induced 
Graham  to  commit,  if  he  did, 
the  ultimate  crime  against  his 
club  and  the  supporters,  of 
banking  money  that  should 
have  been  helping  to  make  the 
team,  the  club,  an  even  better 
entity? 

The  suggestion  that  will  not 
go  away  is  that  many,  if  not 
everyone,  are  doing  it.  Even 
the  Premier  League  inquiry, 
whose  intermittent  bulletins 
simply  play  down  the  spread 
and  the  scope  of  so-called 
bungs,  recently  suggested  that 
the  game  was  dean  "since 
1992".  That,  of  course,  was  the 
rime  Jensen  became  an 
Arsenal  player,  and  the  agent, 
Hauge.  who  is  under  investi¬ 
gation  for  tax  fraud  in  Nor¬ 
way,  has  just  been  awarded 
bona  fide  status,  one  of  tot 
men  whom  the  sports  authori¬ 
ties  approve. 

“George  has  been  unlucky," 
Tommy  Docherty,  that  old 
rascal  who  was  the  manager 
when  Graham  played  at  both 
Chelsea  and  Manchester  Uni¬ 
ted,  says. 

He,  now  retired  from  active 
service  in  the  game,  was  on 
Sky  Television  within  an  hour 
of  the  sacking.  “It  is  well 
known,”  Docherty  asserted, 
“that  there  are  managers  in 
the  game  who  have  taken 
hundreds  of  thousands  of 
pounds.  It'S  got  to  be  greed. 


Graham  takes  exercise  yesterday  morning  before  the  announcement  of  his  dismissal  as  Arsenal  manager 


By  Rob  hughes 

THE  question  of  the  succes¬ 
sion  to  George  Graham  as 
manager  of  Arsenal  became 
an  inevitable  roulette  wheel  of 
intrigue  and  speculation  last 
night.  The  bookmakers  were 
offering  odds  on  33  assorted 
names  —  although -  Unde. 
Tom  CoWey  was  strange^ 
omitted — before  Arsenal's  FAr 
Carling  Premiership  game  . . 
against  Nottingham  Forest 

Bui  Peter  Hill-Wood,  tbe 
dub  chainnan.  was,  of  neces- .  - 
sity,  discussing  but  a  single 
candidate.  “1  spoke  to  Stewart 
Houston  on  the  phone,  and 
asked  him  to  take  charge 
tonight"  Hill-Wood  said,  re¬ 
ferring  to  the  man  who  has 
been  Graham's  assistant  For 
the  past  five  years.  “IH  be; 
speaking  to  him  tomorrow  ’ . 
about  the  longerterm.  He  is  a 
very  possible  candidate.  I’m 
sure  me  players  have  faith  in 
Stewart"  . 

Possibly  they  da  but  possi¬ 
bly  some  of  the  supporters 
who  have  lately  shown  their 
wrath  at  tbe  lack  of  style  in  the 
team,  might  object  to  a  mere 
continuation  of  a  manage¬ 
ment  connection  that  has 
inspired  such  a  paucity  of 
inventive  midfield  {day. 

Unless  Arsenal  choose  to 
maintain  the  present  situation 
until  the  end  of  the  season,  the 
likely  rivals  to  Houston 
indude  Pat  Rice,  the  youth 
team  coach  at  Highbury, 
Liam  Brady,  David  O'Leary  . 
and  Tony  Woodcock,  all  for¬ 
mer  Arsenal  players;  die  last 
was  until  recently  manager  of 
PC  Leipzig. 

Further  down  the  book-£ 

makers’  list  but  intriguing^ 

nevertheless,  are  the  names  of 
Steve  Coppell,  David  Pleat 
Joe  Kinnearand  Bruce  Rioch. 
Coppell  would  certainly  get 
the  job  if  Machiavefli  were 
still  alive.  For  Coppell  had 
been  a  member  of  the  three- 
man  Premier  League  commis¬ 
sion  that  sat  in  judgment  on 
Graham;  moreover,  Coppell 
had  injudiciously  said  to  the 
press  that  it  was  not  so  much  a 
question  oF  whether  Graham 
took  tbe  money,  but  of  why. 
Shortly  afterwards,  Coppell 
declared  himself  keen  to  man¬ 
age  a  football  dub  again. 
Time  will  tell  bow  prescient 
that  decision  really  was. 


there  is  no  other  word  for  it.  If 
they’re  guilty,  get  them  out  of 
the  game  with  a  life  ban." 

The  question  of  a  ban.  of 
any  official  action  beyond 
Highbury’s  door,  was  being 
dismissed  last  night  Hill- 
Wood  said  “I  have  been  in 
touch  with  Rick  Parry  two  or 


three  times  today,  and  I  think 
he  is  happy  with  the  action  we 
have  taken.  There  is  no  evi¬ 
dence  to  suggest  that  the 
Premier  League  will  take  any 
Further  action." 

No  further  action:  is  Gra¬ 
ham  to  be  the  scapegoat  for 
habits  that  have  polluted  the 


1944:  Bom  Barcedcfe.  Scotland.  Nov 
30. 

1962:  Signs  for  Aslan  Vila. 

1964:  Transferred  to  Chelsea  tor  £6,000 
1965:  League  Cup  wirier  alter  victory 
over  LBrcaster  City. 

1 966:  Joins  Arsenal  far  £50,000,  caflect- 
Ing  League  Cup  rumere-up  medals  in 
1968  and  1968. 

1970:  Helps  Arsenal  to  win  Fairs  Cup. 
1971 :  Kay  member  ot  Arsenal's  doubts- 
winning  skte. 

1972:  Joins  Manchester  United  after 
collecting  FA  Cup  runners-up  medal 
and  Brat  oM2  Scotland  caps. 

1974:  Transferred  id  Portsmouth. 

1976:  Moves  to  Crystal  Palace,  who 
earn  promotion  to  second  dMsion. 


1977:  Retires  tram  playing  and  rakes 
coaching  job  with  Queens  Park  Rang¬ 
ers.  Moves  to  Crystal  Palace  as  coach. 
1982:  Joins  MffwaB  as  manager. 

1905:  M9waH  promoted  tram  third 
division. 

I960:  Becomes  Arsenal  manager  in 
May  and  wins  LJttfewoods  Cup  in  first 


1989:  Leads  Arsenal  to  Rrst  league  title 
tar  18  years  thanks  to  dramatic  goal  by 
Michael  Thomas  in  their  final  match, 
against  Liverpool  at  AnfiefcL 
1991:  Arsenal  championship. 

1993:  Arsenal  complete  FA  Cup  and 
Coca-Cola  Cup  double. 

1994:  Arsenal  buat  Parma  to  w*i  Cup 
Winners’ 


national  sport?  That  has  be¬ 
come  as  much  a  legal  as  an 
ethical  question.  The  Premier 
League  has  found  its  inquiry 
absolutely  bedevilled  with 
lawyers,  and  it  was  seen 
earlier  this  season  how  em¬ 
phatically  Tottenham 
Hotspur  employed  men  of  the 
Bar  to  knock  the  stuffing  out  of 
the  intentions  erf  the  Football 
Association. 

What  of  Graham?  His 
future  mayh  lie  abroad.  The 
man  whose  hands  have 
touched  more  trophies,  as 
player  and  manager,  than  any 
other  in  the  club’s  history,  will 
probably  never  now  be  cast  in 
bronze  alongside  the  bust  of 
Herbert  Chapman  in  the  mar, 
ble  halls.  He  forfeited  that 
somewhere  between  High¬ 
bury  and  Scandinavia. 


Cantona  charged,  page  1 


Hill  revs  up  his  mean  machine 

The  new  car  is  quick,  aston-  Simon  Barnes  finds  optimism  overflowing  as 

isriingJy  quick,  the  engine - - - 2 


consummately  reliable  and 
the  drivers  love  each  other. 
Yes,  the  new  Formula  One 
season  is  only  weeks  away  and 
the  Williams  team  yesterday 
laundied  their  new  car  upon 
the  world. 

Yes.  and  the  next  will  be  the 
most  competitive  Formula 
One  season  in  history,  for 
more  a  test  of  drivers  and  less 
a  test  of  machinery  than  ever 
before.  The  annual  optimism 
rode  pig-back  across  the 
Did  cot  sues. 

Last  season  at  Williams 
brought  the  death  of  Ayrton 
Senna,  and,  through  the  trou¬ 
bles  and  traumas,  a  second 
place  in  the  world  drivers’ 
championship  for  Damon 
Hill.  It  also  brought  Hill,  now 
34,  a  new  team-mate  ten  years 
his  junior.  David  Coulthanl, 
hungry  and  pugnacious,  lined 
up  beside  Hill  yesterday  to 
unvefl  a  lean  and  high-nosed 
car.  They  stood  side  by  side, 
grinning  uneasily  in  the  lights 
of  a  thousand  cameras. 


It  ended  with,  for  a  fraction 
.  of  a  second,  the  world  champ- 

Williams  accelerate  towards  a  new  campaign  fonship  in  his  grasp.  But  then 

- — — — -  his  rival  for  the  title,  Michael 

Schumacher,  cannoned  into 
him  and  drove  him  off  the 
track  and  had  the  title  for 
himself.  A  hell  of  a  year. 

The  new  season  wflj  be 
more  competitive,"  HID  said. 
“New  regulations  limiting  en¬ 
gine  size  and  down-force  are 
designed  to  increase  both  safe¬ 
ty  and  parity  of  competition.” 

Meanwhile,  the  rumour 
mill  grinds  oru  this  car  is 
frighteningly  quick,  that  one 
quicker,  this  team  is  conceal¬ 
ing  its  hand  and  is  much 
quicker  (or  slower)  than  it  is 
made  out  to  be.  Hill  smiled 
benignly  at  the  media 
scrimmage. 

On  the  pavement  outside  the 
Williams  factory  in  fading 
white  paint  someone  has  writ¬ 
ten:  "Senna  you  will  always  be 
remembered”  Yes  indeed.  I 
hope  no  more  inscriptions  will 
required  this  year,  in 


Last  year,  the  two  of  them 
were  caught  up  in  a  row  about 
who  gives  way  to  whom.  T 
dont  think  there  is  any  prob¬ 
lem  between  us,"  Coulthard 
said  yesterday.  There  are  no 
team  orders  at  the  start  of  the 
season."  Precedence  is  a  mat¬ 
ter  for  late  summer  and  au¬ 
tumn,  when  one  driver  or 
another  might  be  fighting  for 
the  world  championship  that 
eluded  Hill  tty  a  single  point 
last  season. 

A  strange  season  indeed 
Hill  is,  unusually  in  Formula 
One,  a  man  lacking  in  visible 
signs  of  mthlessness.  Time 
and  again  the  buzz  went  round 
the  bizarre,  globe-wandering 
and  rumour-rnongering  vil¬ 
lage  of  Formula  One  that  Hill 
was  “too  nice"— meaning  too 
soft  —  to  be  a  champion. 

He  went  at  least  halfway  to 
proving  them  all  wrong  in  his 
extraordinary  win  in  foe  rain 


in  the  penultimate  race  of  the 
season  in  Japan.  Heavy  rain  is 
what  separates  the  men  from 
foe  boys  in  Formula  One  —  or 
to  be  more  accurate,  the  driv¬ 
ers  from  their  machinery. 

It  seemed  then  that  Hill's 
sad-eyed  mildness  of  nature 
was  one  of  the  most  deceptive 
fronts  in  sport  But  foe  hard¬ 
ness  is  layers  deep.  He-  is 
perhaps  the  only  man  in 
Formula  One  to  be  truly  easy 
company.  “I’ve  trained  harder 
physically  this  year,"  he  said 
“Arid  I’ve  prepared  harder 
mentally,  too.  On  my  own,  as 
usual.The  new  car  looks  mean 
and  fast,  and  iTn  very  keen  to 
get  into  it" 

A  new  season  is  a  new 
beginning,  and  Hill  has  been 
aching  for  that.  "Last  year,  it 
was  a  hell  of  a  year,  I  wouldn’t 
want  anyone  to  go  through 
that" 


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